So i have the folloing error: didn’t return an HttpResponse object. It returned None instead.
And from what I read it was due to to not having a render in the return line, however after checking multiple times, the render is being output from the return function as it did on the code that worked (the second part) I have double checked and it seems right, I also get the following errors from django:
djangocorehandlersexception.py, line 55, in inner
response = get_response(request)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
line 204, in _get_response
self.check_response(response, callback)

line 332, in check_response
raise ValueError(

# Create your views here.

def home(request):  #define a view, a home view that passes a request
## goes to home html and passes in a dictionary later
    import json
    import requests
    api_request = requests.get("https://www.airnowapi.org/"  # secret key erased)
    try:
        api = json.loads(api_request.content)

    except Exception as e:
        api = "Chiiispas, something went wrong"
    if api[0]['Category']['Name'] == "Good":  ## sets a conditional when the output comes out and links it onto the corresponding html class
        category_description = 'Esta con madre el clima y puedes hacer cosas chingonas'
        category_color='Good'   # html classes are on the base html file
    elif api[0]['Category']['Name'] == "Moderate":
        category_description ='Cámara mi tibio, toma agua y ponte pilas para que no te me desmayes'
        category_color='Moderate'
    elif api[0]['Category']['Name'] == "USG":
            category_description ='Anda de viva la contaminación, pero no te dejes mi tibio'
            category_color='USG'
    elif api[0]['Category']['Name'] == "Unhealthy":
        category_description ='Se está poniendo al tiro el clima, tú sal con tapaocicos y ya andas gucci'
        category_color='Unhealthy'
    elif api[0]['Category']['Name'] == "Very Unhealthy":
        category_description ='Estos niveles de contaminación  son generados por los neoliberales '
        category_color='Very Unhealthy'
    elif api[0]['Category']['Name'] == "Hazardous":
        category_description ='no es por alarmarte pero mejor vete del país que anda insano en clima'
        category_color=''
        return render(request,'home.html',{'api': api,
                                    "category_description":category_description,"category_color": category_color }) # passes the request into the function

def about(request): 
    return render(request,'about.html',{}) 

this was the code that was previously working flawlessly but the fundamentals seem the same on the new file:

# Create your views here.

def home(request):  #define a view, a home view that passes a request
    import json
    import requests
    api_request = requests.get("https://www.airnowapi.org/aq/observation" )
    try:
        api = json.loads(api_request.content)

    except Exception as e:
        api = "Chiiispas, something went wrong"
    return render(request,'home.html',{'api':api})  # passes the request into the function
## goes to home html and passes in a dictionary later


def about(request): 
    return render(request,'about.html',{}) ```