hackerrank.py

from requests import get

host = "https://jsonmock.hackerrank.com/api/movies/search/?Title={}"

proxies_dict = {
    "http" : ""
}

def doGet(url=None, proxy=None):
    if url is not None:
        if proxy is not None:
            proxies_dict['http'] = proxy
        request = get(url, proxies=proxies_dict)
        if int(request.status_code) == 200:
            return request.json()
        return dict(error=str(request.text))
    return dict(error="No url was passed!")

def getMovieTitles(title=None):
    titles = []
    if title is not None:
        target_url = host.format(title)
        json_resp = doGet(url=target_url)
        for resp in json_resp['data']:
            titles.append(resp['Title'])
        return(sorted(titles, key=len))
    return dict(error="Please pass in a title")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(getMovieTitles(title="Superman"))

I could have created query params @ the request level, but decided to leave the host as is .