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To begin, head over to the course resources as always and download the starting 

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zip file for today's starting project. And once you've done that,

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go ahead and unzip the file and open it up inside PyCharm. Now,

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if we take a look inside the project folder,

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you can see we've got a bunch of images

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which is going to be used for the buttons,

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and we've also got a lot of the code that we had created in our previous quiz

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project. It may seem like it was a long time ago,

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but back in day 17

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we learned about creating classes and the project that we built to do that was a

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text based quiz. And in fact,

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once you've downloaded and opened up the starting file for today's project,

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you can actually run this program.

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So open up main.py and run it.

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Then you can see the original format of the quiz application in action

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inside the console. We can type true or false,

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and it will give us some feedback, whether if we got it right

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or whether if we got it wrong and also our current score.

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Now this was great on day 17,

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but now that we know all about creating graphical user interfaces using tkinter

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as well as a whole bunch of things that we've learned about APIs just now, we're

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going to upgrade this quiz app to the next level.

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The first thing we want to upgrade is at the moment,

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these questions are hard-coded.

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So inside our data.py,

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you can see all of these questions as a list of dictionary objects.

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And at the time,

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the place where we got all of these questions from was in fact,

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the open trivia database.

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But what we did here is we selected the number of questions we wanted,

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we selected the category that we wanted,

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and then we changed the type to true and false and we said, generate API URL.

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And then once that URL is generated,

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all we did was we put it into our  browser and we got this data and we put it

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into our question data. Now,

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this, being hard-coded, is obviously never going to change.

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So what we want to do instead is we want to get 10 questions from the open

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trivia database,

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but this time we want to make a request to the API so that we always get

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different questions and different answers.

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The idea of this challenge is to modify the code in the data.py file to get 10

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new questions using the open trivia database every time the program is run.

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Here's what your code should do after you've successfully completed the

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challenge. You'll still get a console based quiz, but this time,

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the text and the correct answer came from the open trivia database via an API

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call.

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You'll see that any symbol like single double quotes will not be displayed

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correctly just yet,

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but getting the API call working is the first step and the goal of this

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challenge.

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So what I want you to do is to set the number of questions to 10 and leave the

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category as blank, leave the difficulty is blank,

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but make sure that the type is set to true-false and then generate this API URL.

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Now remember what I said before that the API end point is everything before the

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question mark. So this is the base URL that we're going to be working with.

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And then after the question mark, we've got our different parameters.

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So we've got a parameter called amount

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which is set to 10, and we've got another parameter called type

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which is set to the word boolean.

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So you are going to have to think back to what you learned in yesterday's

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lessons

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and use the requests module to make a request to this API and passing in the

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required parameters.

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And then once you've generated the data from that API,

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then I want you to make sure that you reach into the data that you get back and

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grab the data that is in this format.

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And we're going to replace this question_data with the actual questions that we

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get from the open trivia database API.

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When we make the request to the API in our browser,

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we get back something that looks like this.

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So we have a two item dictionary; one is the response code,

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and one is the results.

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Now the value for this key results is the list of dictionary objects that we

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actually want and it looks very similar in structure to this.

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So that is what we want. So everything inside here, basically.

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Now we're going to still call it question_data because elsewhere in our main.py

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we're tapping into this data here.

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So make sure you name it the same.

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And once you've done this successfully,

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then you should be able to comment out all of this code here,

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right?

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And then simply run the program from main.py without any changes

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and it should still work

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but this time it should be using the questions and answers that you fetched from

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the API. This is a challenge for you. So I want you to pause the video,

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have a think about how you might do that and complete the challenge.