@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import requests
+from operator import itemgetter
+
+# Meke an API call and store the respose
+api_url = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty'
+r = requests.get(api_url)
+print('Status code: ', r.status_code)
+
+# Process information about each submission
+submission_ids = r.json()
+submission_dicts = []
+
+for submission_id in submission_ids[:30]:
+# Make a seperate API call to for each submission
+url = (
+f'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{str(submission_id)}.json')
+submission_r = requests.get(url)
+response_dict = submission_r.json()
+
+submission_dict = {
+'title': response_dict['title'],
+'link': f'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={str(submission_id)}',
+'comments': response_dict.get('descendants', 0), # return 0 in Null
+}
+
+submission_dicts.append(submission_dict)
+
+submission_dicts = sorted(
+submission_dicts, key=itemgetter('comments'), reverse=True)
+
+for submission_dict in submission_dicts:
+print('\nTitle:', submission_dict['title'])
+print('Discussion link:', submission_dict['link'])
+print('Comments:', submission_dict['comments'])

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import requests
+import pygal
+from pygal.style import LightColorizedStyle as LCS, LightenStyle as LS
+
+# Make an API request and store response
+url = 'https://api..com/search/repositories?q=language:javascript&sort=stars'
+r = requests.get(url)
+print('API Request Status: ', r.status_code)
+
+# Store API response in a variable
+response_dict = r.json()
+print('Total repositories: ', response_dict['total_count'])
+
+# Explore information about the repositories
+repo_dicts = response_dict['items']
+
+names, plot_dicts = [], []
+for repo_dict in repo_dicts:
+names.append(repo_dict['name'])
+
+plot_dict = {
+'value': repo_dict['stargazers_count'],
+'label': repo_dict['description'],
+'xlink': repo_dict['html_url'],
+}
+
+plot_dicts.append(plot_dict)
+
+# Visualize with pygal bar chart
+my_style = LS('#733380', base_style=LCS)
+my_style.title_font_size = 24
+my_style.label_font_size = 14
+my_style.major_label_font_size = 18
+
+my_config = pygal.Config()
+my_config.value_formatter = lambda y: f'{y:,.0f}' # format (123,456)
+my_config.x_label_rotation = 45
+my_config.show_legend = False
+my_config.tooltip_fancy_mode = False
+my_config.truncate_label = 15
+my_config.show_y_guides = False
+my_config.width = 1000
+
+chart = pygal.Bar(my_config, style=my_style)
+chart.title = 'Most-Starred JavaScript Projects on '
+chart.x_labels = names
+
+chart.add('', plot_dicts)
+chart.render_to_file('./working_with_apis/images/svg/javascript_repos.svg')

@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@
 # Visualize with pygal bar chart
 my_style = LS('#336699', base_style=LCS)
 my_style.title_font_size = 24
-my_style.title_font_color = '#1bcc1b'
 my_style.label_font_size = 14
 my_style.major_label_font_size = 18
 
 my_config = pygal.Config()
+my_config.value_formatter = lambda y: f'{y:,.0f}' # format (123,456)
 my_config.x_label_rotation = 45
 my_config.show_legend = False
 my_config.tooltip_fancy_mode = False # Hides title from tooltip on hover