Many websites distribute data via their API, which bridges applications via standardized architecture. While we are not going to cover the details of using APIs here, we will cover the most common API data exchange formats, namely CSV and JSON.
Interested readers can visit site-specific documentations for the use of APIs.
We have briefly covered parsing of CSV files in Chapter 4, Advanced Matplotlib. To aid your understanding, we are going to represent the same data using both CSV and JSON.