better skeleton

marvel/.gitignore

@@ -1 +1 @@
-api-keys
+api-keys.txt

marvel/hello.py

@@ -1,17 +1,23 @@
 import hashlib
 import requests
+import shutil
 import time
+import textwrap
 
 
 def main():
-    with open("api-keys", "r") as file:
+    # Read api keys from the text file
+    with open("api-keys.txt", "r") as file:
         lines = file.readlines()
     assert len(lines) == 2, "Incorrect api-keys file"
     public_key = lines[0].strip()
     private_key = lines[1].strip()
 
 
-    url = "http://gateway.marvel.com/v1/public/comics"
+    # base url
+    base_url = "http://gateway.marvel.com/v1/public"
+
+    # Authorizsation stuff
     params = dict()
     params["apikey"] = public_key
     ts = str(time.time())
@@ -21,9 +27,25 @@ def main():
     digest = hasher.hexdigest()
     params["ts"] = ts
     params["hash"] = digest
+
+
+    # Other parameters:
+    name = "Spider-Man"
+    params["name"]  = name
+
+
+    # Perform the request
+    url = base_url + "/characters"
     response = requests.get(url, params=params)
-    print(response.status_code)
-    print(response.text)
+    status_code = response.status_code
+    assert status_code == 200, "got status: " + str(status_code)
+    body = response.json()
+    description = body["data"]["results"][0]["description"]
+
+    # Print the description
+    terminal_size = shutil.get_terminal_size()
+    columns = terminal_size.columns
+    print("\n".join(textwrap.wrap(description, width=columns)))
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":