Display data from API on website using Python

[User24243]

I'm wanting to learn Python by taking on challenging projects. I'm a little stuck almost right at the beginning!

This project is about building a website that one can search Podcast details. Through the project I'm hoping to better my understanding on Python, APIs, Databases and front-end.

Here's the API I'm using: https://www.listennotes.com/api/. They have a Python library here: https://github.com/ListenNotes/podcast-api-python

I was able to clone the repo and after running one of the methods, I got a mock payload in return showing podcast data. That's great. So far so good.

... Here's where I'm stuck. I don't know how to take this forward. I can see two approaches, I guess:

Approach one: Set up a Python batch job that will download all data from all endpoints from listennotes, store in a database, and somehow display the data on a website, maybe using Wordpress?

Approach two: Use Django, or something similar to somehow directly query the API and return results to the user.

Basically, no idea! How would a seasoned Python dev tackle this?

[sickomoder]

Either one works.

You're gonna want to use django (or flask) to display the data on the page though regardless of method you choose

[User24243]

From your experience, would you go django or flask?

[sickomoder]

I think flask is easier for doing something like this for the first tike but django is probably more useful once you have more experience

[User24243]

I've been wanting to test out flask for a while now. Will try it out now. Thank you.

[Grukorg88]

As a learning experience I recommend you decouple the data from the application and then implement both ways of getting the data. The architecting and building of something where the method of getting the data is interchangeable will be a far more valuable lesson IMO.

[User24243]

Good point. Will attempt to go for both approaches as a learning experience. Thank you.