Fetch Random User Data Using Python and Free Public API

Learn how to use the requests library in Python to fetch random user data from a public API. This is a beginner-friendly example to understand API requests, JSON parsing, and error handling.

import requests

# Function to fetch random user data from the public API
def fetch_data_with_API():
    url = "https://api.freeapi.app/api/v1/public/randomusers/user/random"

    # Sending a GET request to the API endpoint
    response = requests.get(url)

    # Parsing the JSON response
    data = response.json()

    # Checking if the response contains valid user data
    if data["data"] and "data" in data:
        user_data = data["data"]
        user_name = user_data["login"]["username"]
        user_phone = user_data["phone"]
        user_email = user_data["email"]
        user_country = user_data["location"]["country"]

        # Returning required user details
        return user_name, user_phone, user_email, user_country

    else:
        # Raising an exception if data is missing or request failed
        raise Exception("Request was not successful. Try again!")

# Main function to run the script
def main():
    try:
        # Fetching and displaying user data
        user_name, user_phone, user_email, user_country = fetch_data_with_API()
        print(f"User Name: {user_name}\nUser Phone No.: {user_phone}\nUser Email: {user_email}\nUser Country: {user_country}")
    except Exception as e:
        # Handling errors gracefully
        print(str(e))

# Entry point of the script
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()