Get quiz questions from opentdb's API (programming class exercise)

get_api_quiz.py

def get_questions(amount: int = 10, difficulty: str = 'easy') -> dict:
    import http.client
    import json

    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("opentdb.com")
    conn.request("GET", f"/api.php?amount={amount}&difficulty={difficulty}&type=multiple")
    response = conn.getresponse()
    response_text = response.read().decode()
    conn.close()
    return json.loads(response_text)


def get_questions_alternative(amount: int = 10, difficulty: str = 'easy') -> dict:
    """
    Alternative method, using requests, which needs to be installed with:
        pip install requests 
    """
    import requests
    req = requests.get(f'https://opentdb.com/api.php?amount={amount}&difficulty={difficulty}&type=multiple')
    return req.json()


print(get_questions())
print(get_questions_alternative())

The following may be useful for displaying questions properly:

def parse_text(html_string: str) -> str:
    import html
    # Convert HTML entity to regular single quote
    return html.unescape(html_string)