Create an AWS lambda function to make an api call using Geopy (PyPI) library

Today we will learn on how to import external libraries in AWS Lambda function and call the api functions

Steps:

• Create an empty AWS Lambda function
• Download geopy library from PyPi 
• Link: https://pypi.org/project/geopy/
• extract the geopy folder in a separate location from the above downloaded zip
• delete the zip and the rest. we just need the geopy folder
• Download geographiclib library
• Link: https://pypi.org/project/geographiclib/
• extract the geographiclib folder in a separate location from the above downloaded zip
• delete the zip and the rest. we just need the geographiclib folder
• Make a zip file that combines both the above two downloaded libraries folders
• Import/upload the zip file in our function

• Import the geopy library
• Write the code to calculate the distance between two cities (shown in the picture below)

• Run the function 
• If you are running for the first time, it will ask you to create a test event. give a name for the test event and hit execute.

• You will see the result of the lambda function in your execution panel