Python requests essentials : learn how to integrate your applications seamlessly with web services using Python requests

Chapter 5: Interacting with Social Media Using Requests; API introduction; Getting started with the Twitter API; Obtaining an API Key; Creating an authentication Request; Getting your favorite tweet; Performing a simple search; Accessing the list of followers; Retweets; Accessing available trends; Updating user status; Interacting with Facebook; Getting started with the Facebook API; Obtaining a key; Getting a user profile; Retrieving a friends list; Retrieving feed; Retrieving albums; Interacting with reddit; Getting started with the reddit API; Registering a new account

About This Book

• Learn how to design and deploy an OpenStack private cloud using automation tools and best practices
• Gain valuable insight into OpenStack components and new services
• Explore the opportunities to build a scalable OpenStack infrastructure with this comprehensive guide

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for system administrators, cloud engineers, and system architects who want to deploy a cloud based on OpenStack in a mid- to large-sized IT infrastructure. If you have a fundamental understanding of cloud computing and OpenStack and want to expand your knowledge, then this book is an excellent checkpoint to move forward.

What You Will Learn

• Explore the main architecture design of OpenStack components, core-by-core services, and how they work together
• Learn how to distribute OpenStack services among cluster setup
• Compare different storage solutions and driver extensions
• Design different high availability scenarios and how to plan for a no Single Point Of Failure environment
• Set up a multinode environment in production using orchestration tools
• Boost OpenStack performance with advanced configuration
• Establish a distributed monitoring solution and keep track of resource consumption

In Detail

This comprehensive guide will help you to choose the right practical option and make strategic decisions about the OpenStack cloud environment to fit your infrastructure in production.

At the start, this book will explain the OpenStack core architecture. You will soon be shown how to create your own OpenStack private cloud.

Next, you will move on to cover the key security layer and network troubleshooting skills, along with some advanced networking features. Finally, you will gain experience of centralizing and logging OpenStack. The book will show you how to carry out performance tuning based on OpenStack service logs.

By the end of this book, you will be ready to take steps to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud with the latest open source technologies.

Learn how to integrate your applications seamlessly with web services using Python Requests About This Book A fast-paced guide that demonstrates the use of Python Requests with the help of examples Learn web scraping with Beautiful Soup and Python Requests libraries Interact with social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to retrieve data from them Who This Book Is For If you are a Python administrator or developer interested in interacting with web APIs and have a passion for creating your own web applications, this is the book for you. Basic knowledge of Python programming, APIs, and web services will be an advantage. What You Will Learn Demonstrate the use of Python Requests with the help of examples Use the Requests module to deal with the inner sections of the request-response cycles Implement the RESTful Web API with Python Requests Authenticate Requests using different authentication methods Emulate server actions and interact with a mock server Interact with social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and reddit Scrape the Web with Python Requests and BeautifulSoup Build your own web application with Flask In Detail Python is one of the most popular programming languages of our era; the Python Requests library is one of the world's best clients, with the highest number of downloads. It allows hassle-free interactions with web applications using simple procedures. You will be shown how to mock HTTP Requests using HTTPretty, and will learn to interact with social media using Requests. This book will help you to grasp the art of web scraping with the BeautifulSoup and Python Requests libraries, and will then paddle you through Requests impressive ability to interact with APIs. It will empower you with the best practices for seamlessly drawing data from web apps. Last but not least, you will get the chance to polish your skills by implementing a RESTful Web API with Python and Flask!