使用Hacker News网站的API调用

代码如下：

from operator import itemgetter
import requests

# 执行API调用并存储响应。
url = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json'
r = requests.get(url)
print(f"Status code: {r.status_code}")

# 处理有关每篇文章的信息。
submission_ids = r.json()
submission_dicts = []
for submission_id in submission_ids[:30]:
    # 对于每篇文章，都执行一个API调用。
    url = f"https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{submission_id}.json"
    r = requests.get(url)
    print(f"id: {submission_id}\tstatus: {r.status_code}")
    response_dict = r.json()

    # 对于每篇文章，都创建一个字典。
    submission_dict = {
        'title': response_dict['title'],
        'hn_link': f"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={submission_id}",
        'comments': response_dict.get('descendants', 0),
    }
    submission_dicts.append(submission_dict)

submission_dicts = sorted(submission_dicts, key=itemgetter('comments'), reverse=True)

for submission_dict in submission_dicts:
    print(f"\nTitle:{submission_dict['title']}")
    print(f"Discussion link:{submission_dict['hn_link']}")
    print(f"Comments:{submission_dict['comments']}")

输出结果如下：

Status code: 200
id: 39658310	status: 200
id: 39656657	status: 200
id: 39658408	status: 200
id: 39657088	status: 200
id: 39658742	status: 200
--snip--

Title:BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) Is hiring a Growth Associate
Discussion link:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658497
Comments:0

Title:Iris (Infra-Red, in Situ) Silicon Verification Project Updates
Discussion link:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39657936
Comments:0

Title:SQLite on macOS: Not ACID compliant with the bundled version (2022)
Discussion link:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39657397
Comments:0

Title:Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)
Discussion link:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39654232
Comments:0

Title:Open Data Description Language
Discussion link:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39656393
Comments:0

Process finished with exit code 0

学习中遇到的困难：

按照书本编写代码，运行到 'comments': response_dict['descendants']这一行代码时就报错并停止运行了，运用断点查看bug原因，为第6个数据的字典里没有descendants这个key所以报错，因此要使其在没有该键时进行容错处理，修改为以下代码：

'comments': response_dict.get('descendants', 0),

以便在键不存在时返回默认值。