Add the API configuration

Now under the imports we are going to add the API configuration. This is where we will have the API key that we generated earlier and the base url that we will be calling.

import requests
import json

# Your API configuration
API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"  # Replace with your actual key
BASE_URL = "https://api.simpler.grants.gov"

If you wanted to improve this project in the future you may want to look into moving the API_KEY and BASE_URL into a .env file so that they can be kept secret. You don't want to commit your API_KEY to version control where others may be able to see it.

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