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Is it possible to make API calls without cURL installed?

17th October 2010

My answer to Is it possible to make API calls without cURL installed? on Quora

Yes:

$ python
>>> import urllib, json
>>> json.load(urllib.urlopen("http://reddit.com/.json"))

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