I was following this tutorial for requesting from the 2010 Decennial Census. It specifies the following code for printing a list of state names ("NAME"), state areas ("AREALAND"), and state total populations ("P001001"):
import requests
HOST = "https://api.census.gov/data"
year = "2010"
dataset = "dec/sf1"
base_url = "/".join([HOST, year, dataset])
predicates = {}
get_vars = ["NAME", "AREALAND", "P001001"]
predicates["get"] = ",".join(get_vars)
predicates["for"] = "state:*"
col_names = ["name", "total_pop", "state"]
r = requests.get(base_url, params = predicates)
print (r.text)
When I run the code I get the following error:
error: error: unknown variable 'AREALAND'
Looking at the 2010 Decennial Census Variable List I don't see 'AREALAND' listed. Has the API been changed since the tutorial was made, or am I making some other kind of error? The tutorial was published to YouTube on March 4th, 2020.
