📅 2024-08-30 — Session: Structured Data Handling and API Integration
🕒 19:30–22:10
🏷️ Labels: Api Integration, Data Parsing, Python, Error Handling, Data Analysis
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance data parsing functions and improve API integration for efficient data handling and analysis.
Key Activities
- Developed a Python function to analyze financing options with installment-based payment structures.
- Outlined workflows for market analysis and data scraping, including error handling and modularization.
- Resolved MercadoLibre API authorization errors and troubleshot localhost environment issues.
- Improved code organization for API integration, focusing on error handling and modular programming.
- Structured data from MercadoLibre API into relational tables using Python and SQLAlchemy.
- Enhanced JSON parsing functions to capture unhandled data and implemented logging for robustness.
- Developed parsing functions for e-commerce product attributes, organizing data into separate DataFrames.
- Enhanced the
parse_product
function for safe access and error handling.
Achievements
- Successfully improved data handling processes and API integration strategies.
- Enhanced robustness and flexibility of data parsing functions.
- Established a structured approach for organizing and storing data.
Pending Tasks
- Further refine data parsing functions for additional product attributes.
- Continue monitoring and optimizing API integration workflows.