"Fortune Cookie" API is Old

[koki0702]

In the book at p.220, "Fortune Cookie" API doesn't work.
Please check!

http://www.iheartquotes.com/api/v1/random

>>> import urllib.request as ur
>>> url = 'http://www.iheartquotes.com/api/v1/random'
>>> conn = ur.urlopen(url)
>>> print(conn)
<http.client.HTTPResponse object at 0x1006fad50>

[alnash28]

@koki0702 Look like the service is down. Did you receive the error below?

raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable

@madscheme This resource may have been moved or take offline for now.Do you have any recommendations?

[alnash28]

Here is an updated example. Considering Ch.9(p220), is a web example using urllib from the Standard Library. Why dont we just changed the url request to something else.

import urlib.request as ur
url = 'http://placekitten.com/'
conn = ur.urlopen(url)
print(conn)
<http.client.HTTPResponse object at 0x105b3f4a8>

My URL was borrowed from the CodeAcademy example here. But @madscheme might want to pick something more permanent.

[alnash28]

I got it! We can fetch the docs for urllib.request from PSF.. here That would be kinda funny 👍