Rate Limiting, Error Handling, and Best Practices for API Design
Covers how to be a good API citizen when consuming external APIs and how to build well-designed APIs yourself. Explains how to read GitHub-style rate limit headers and automatically pause when the remaining quota hits zero. Demonstrates robust error handling using raise_for_status() and catching specific request exceptions. On the design side, covers six best practices: meaningful HTTP status codes, resource-centric RESTful endpoint naming, pagination, versioning, authentication, and comprehensive documentation with tools like Swagger.