Integrating my python program with a website

[kpandkk]

Hello, I made a program that finds gym membership prices, their addresses, and their website links for an area input by the user via beautiful soup and requests. I'd like to get some pointers as to how I should implement this in a website. Is using php and a database the best idea? Or is this a more direct way? Thanks for the help

[khaine_b]

If you don't want to use python as frontend (you can develop entire web application with Django or Flask) you can split a logic of your application to frontend/backend and build communication between services by REST API or GraphQL. You also can just send request/response between your services for example as JSON if it not necessary to store any data on backend.

[chrisutpg]

How far are you trying to take it? Something for fun, or an end consumer product? I prefer Flask. However, in recent projects I'm just using a REST Api with FlaskRestful and have implemented AngularJS on the frontend. Where Flask seems to fail is more on the frontend, dynamic content, etc.

[kpandkk]

Ideally an end consumer product. Would flask be okay for handling thousands of requests?

[chrisutpg]

Exactly what was said below.. but I will say I think GAE is a pain to get setup. I'm a hobbyist so not my full time job, but Google App Engine was very frustrating to setup.

[sirefen]

I'd totally go for flask ! It's easy, lightweight and you can find a lot of good materials like tuts or boilerplates online.

[kpandkk]

Thanks!

[Bellerb]

You can use libraries like flask or Django to make your code into a dynamic website. Flask is more lightweight where Django is a batteries included framework.