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Hello,

I’m currently working through the FIRMS API tutorial provided at:
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/content/academy/data_api/firms_api_use.html

I encountered an issue when using the line:
df = pd.read_json(url, typ='series')

This resulted in an error and did not return the expected output. After some debugging, I tried retrieving the same URL using the requests library and got the following raw response:

{
"transaction_limit": 5000,
"current_transactions": 0,
"transaction_interval": "10 minutes"
}

It seems like the API is returning a valid JSON object, but the format may not be compatible with the pd.read_json(..., typ='series') method as currently shown in the tutorial.

Replacing it with this worked as expected:
import requests
response = requests.get(url)
data = response.json()
df = pd.Series(data)

I wanted to flag this in case others run into the same problem. Would you recommend updating the tutorial or adding a note for users encountering this issue?

Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in FIRMS.

We will make the changes that make the Python notebook work seemlessly again.

Thanks,
Dylan