Sample code for requesting La Jolla, CA tide predictions from www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov

la_jolla_tides.py

import requests
import json

url = "https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/datagetter?begin_date=20170816&end_date=20170816&station=9410230&datum=MLLW&product=predictions&units=english&time_zone=lst&format=json"
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
content = r.content.decode('utf8')
if 'wrong' not in content.lower():
    try:
        data = json.loads(content)
    except Exception:
        data = content
else:
    data = r.__dict__
data