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Troubleshooting Python Requests Returning HTML Instead of JSON

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 3, 2024

When working with APIs in Python, it is important to handle authentication, set the Accept header, and monitor for HTML responses to ensure JSON data is returned.

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