API Data Extraction with Python

This project demonstrates a simple and common Data Engineering pattern:
extracting data from a REST API, transforming it into a structured format, and storing it as a Parquet file.

Technologies Used

• Python
• Requests
• Pandas
• PyArrow (Parquet)

What this project does

• Consumes a public REST API
• Validates the HTTP response
• Converts JSON data into a Pandas DataFrame
• Adds extraction metadata
• Stores the data in Parquet format