Gets a random name from https://uinames.com/ via Python Requests

random_name.py

import requests

# https://uinames.com/


def random_name(amount=1, gender="", region="", minlen="", maxlen="", key="name"):
    
    if gender != "":
        gender = "?gender=" + gender
    if region != "":
        region = "?region=" + region
    if minlen != "":
        minlen = "?minlen=" + str(round(minlen))
    if maxlen != "":
        maxlen = "?maxlen=" + str(round(maxlen))
    
    recv = requests.get("https://uinames.com/api/" + gender + region + minlen + maxlen)
    recv.raise_for_status()
    if key is "":
        return recv.json()
    else:
        return recv.json().get(key)