3 Ways to Unit Test REST APIs in Python

• requests

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  A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

  

To retrieve the weather data, we'll use requests. We can create a function that receives a city name as parameter and returns a json. The json will contain the temperature, weather description, sunset, sunrise time and so on.

• VCR.py

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  Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing

Now it’s finally the time to discuss our last option. I have only found about it quite recently, frankly. I’ve been using mocks for a long time and always had some problem with them. VCR.py is a library that simplifies a lot the tests that make HTTP requests.

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• tutorials

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You can find the full app on my github.

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