Adding the API call script to fetch all rows of data for a given year

APIcall/api311_2021.py

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+Created on Sat Jun  4 17:49:23 2022
+
+@author: AdithiPriya
+
+"""
+# import the necessary packages...
+
+import pandas as pd
+import requests
+
+data_2021= []
+skip=0   # this denotes the page number 
+limit= 10000
+# since there are no next_url option or information about the total number of records, we will create a while loop...
+while True:
+    url=f'https://dev-api.311-data.org/requests?start_date=2021-01-01&end_date=2021-12-31&skip={skip}&limit={limit}'
+    #print('Requesting', url)
+    response= requests.get(url)
+    data= response.json()
+    # Are there any more page left??? 
+    if data==[]: # if not, exit the loop...
+        break
+    # If there are pages left, add them to the variable data_2021 and move on to the next loop...
+    data_2021.extend(data)
+    skip=skip+limit
+data_2021_df = pd.DataFrame(data_2021)  
+
+data_2021_df=data_2021_df.sort_values(by='createdDate')    # sorting the data frame by created date...
+
+data_2021_df=data_2021_df.reset_index(drop=True)         # reindexing...
+
+data_2021_df.to_csv('clean_311_data_2021.csv')   # saving the dataframe as a csv file...
+