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The EIA API dashboard

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The EIA API dashboard

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- [Instructor] In this video, we will review the eia API dashboard and learn how to use its functionality to search data, apply filters, and extract the query settings. This information, as you will see later on this course, will be used for when setting the get request via our Python to pull data from the API programmatically. Let's go now to the browser and log in again to eia.gov. Under the features section, click the API icon and then click the browse the API, which will open the API dashboard. First things first, we will select the API route, which defines the type of energy category and the subcategory below. For example, let's select the electricity category. Then a new popup will show with the electricity subcategories. As we are interested in the daily and hourly data, we'll select the electricity power operation daily and hourly. In this case, there is a second subcategory and we can see the options over here. And we are interested in the hourly demand for sub region. Let's…

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