Using URL parameters to filter the results

In this section, I will retrieve all of the issue reports from the Seeclickfix API that occurred on the first day of January 2017. To start with, I will create a new file called get_scf_date_range.py, and import the requests module and the csv as follows:

import requests
import csv

The goal will be to gather all of the issue reports that occur during the first day of January 2017 and to store the results in a CSV file. In order to do this, you will need to make use of URLparameters. URL parameters are custom values that are added on to the end of a URL to further specify the get request.

The Seeclickfix API documentation on the issues resource shows a number of URL parameters that can be used. After looking through the Seeclickfix API documentation at http://dev.seeclickfix.com/v2/issues/, you may identify three particular parameters that are of use. The first two of these are the after and before parameters: 

These parameters can be used to specify...