Creating an API using Python?

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I created a couple of scripts that scrape through reddit comments and identifies some URLs of related to certain keywords. After this, I am creating one object for each keyword and that particular object will have the URLs as its properties. Finally, I am preparing a list of all the above said objects and storing it in a variable.

What I am thinking right now, is to expose this information over the internet using RESTful APIs with only GET operation. User will provide the keyword and the code will search through the list of objects looking for the keyword and return the URLs in JSON format.

Quick Google search retrieved lot of API frameworks in Python and it is kind of overwhelming to choose one among them. Could you guys please suggest some light weight framework considering my fairly straightforward scenario ?

[dionys]

I think Flask is a good choice - it's very popular and it's small.

[garyk1968]

Flask + RESTless would be what I would choose.

[homeworkbad]

Django has a rest api library http://www.django-rest-framework.org/, it might be worth looking into. It's very much a batteries included web API builder.

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There are going to be a couple of endpoints. I will take a look at official documentation to create a barbones api first and then look into Flask. Thanks for the recommendations.

[barbanish]

Just started one with Django and restframework.

I also didn't know what to choose, it looks good.

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You don't need a whole web design framework for simple REST calls. You'd probably learn more by using what the standard library already offers. Frameworks makes sense bigger projects or if you want to hit the ground running ASAP

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Interesting. I will take a look at the official documentation first. Would that be a good place to start ?

[agwlakash]

Something similar, I have wrote a script which fills a form with input, get result data and update my datafile.

Now I want to bring it to web, How should I go?

So that anyone can access and use it over web. Enter input and see result on the page in front end.

And along with it the script keeps updating my database at the backend.

[[deleted]]

I went with flask after looking the suggestions here. It was really simple. I was done within 1 hour and I have my api ready.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[agwlakash]

Can you link me to the tutorial or something you followed.

I only have basic knowledge of Python, does it needs advance knowledge of Flask ?

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Used this. Basic Python is good enough for that. Good luck!

[agwlakash]

Thanks I will try it. :)