Program excercise : Write a function that, using the Star Wars API (swapi.co), takes a character name, and returns a list with the names of the films that character was in.

import requests, json
def get_film_details_by_url(film_url):
    resp = requests.get(film_url)
    return_dict = None
    if resp.status_code == 200:
        return_dict = json.loads(resp.text)
    return return_dict
     

def get_film_details_by_char_name(char_name):
    swapi_base_url = "https://swapi.co/api/"
    get_people_url = swapi_base_url+"people"
    film_url_array = []
    film_name_array = []
    to_continue = True
    while to_continue:
        resp = requests.get(get_people_url)
        if resp.status_code == 200:
            resp_dict =  json.loads(resp.text)
            for ppl in resp_dict["results"]:
                if ppl["name"].lower() == char_name.lower():
                    film_url_array = ppl["films"]
            if not resp_dict["next"] or len(film_url_array)>0:
                break
            else:
                get_people_url = resp_dict["next"]
    for film_url in film_url_array:
        film_details = get_film_details_by_url(film_url)
        if film_details:
            film_name_array = film_name_array+[film_details["title"]]
    return film_name_array