utils.py

utils.get_JSON(URL: str) → Dict

Request JSON from API server.

GET requests to URL provided to the function and return a python dict. APIs like NHL have a wrapper so handles that as well.

Parameters

URL (str) – [description]

Returns

JSON object that was parsed into a python dictionary

Return type

Dict

utils.get_date(delta: int) → str

Build a date object with given day offset.

Function is necessary to check games for NHL since the API returns games for entire week. Get the date as a string in a particular format used in JSON returned from NHL API.

Parameters

delta (int) – Offset

Returns

Date in the format “%Weekday %-month%-dayofmonth”

Return type

str