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Due to the move to HTTPS and some latent breaking change at Let's Encrypt, we had to remove the _ in our URL:

http://consumer_services_api.talkpython.fm -> https://consumerservicesapi.talkpython.fm/

The API calls redirect fine, but the "smarts" of the browser to try to upgrade http://consumer_services_api.talkpython.fm to https://consumer_services_api.talkpython.fm failed after Let's encrypt dropped support for that subdomain and the browsers remember.

So I've updated all the code with the latest SSL domain. Sorry if this confused you at some point.

I'll replace it with http://whatsmyuseragent.org/ Thanks Nicholas for reporting this.

A Clean Environment For Our Course

Video instructions for:
. ./consuming_svc_env/bin/activate

State that in Windows the dot (.) is not needed however I found that more than that instruction was also required. The activate was not at this location. Rather it's nested in a /scripts/ folder (not bin) and for the windows cmd prompt I had to use \ instead of /.

Namely:
.\consuming_svc_env\scripts\activate.bat

Worked for me in Windows.

*Personal note and other windows users may have a similar issue:
I also do not have access to a "which pip3" / "which pip" command (unrecognized command) even though I found a which.py file nested here:

C:\Users\sstry\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Tools\scripts

And even added it to my environment variables. Still working on that one unless you have a suggestion?

Hi Michael,

Just started reviewing the "Consuming HTTP Services in Python" course tonight and I'm not sure how easy it is for you to fix typos in a video to republish, but found a typo.

Service type: Message queues

30 seconds in: "Read messgae" instead of "Read message."

I figure if you can fix it before too many people jump on your course it's a good thing but if you want me to stop sending you bothersome emails or tweets, just say the word. I'll happily go about my python education and not hassle you unnecessarily over things people can ascertain is just a typo.

should be github_api_from_python.py ?

"the code Michael discusses in chapter 7 that we have to build out (similar to the "you try" code in the other courses) I can't find. It looks like it's got the wrong chapter name in GitHub (chapter 2 rather than 7) at https://github.com/talkpython/consuming_services_python_demos/tree/master/src/ch2_http_services and the "blog_explorer.py" code there is complete, unlike the course where only the skeleton is meant to be available and the student completes the rest."