Create Restful APIs with Python in One Minute

Introduction

Create Restful APIs in minutes is important when an idea flash in your brain. These APIs maybe not strong or stable, but meaningful to test your greate ideas.

Now, let’s do that in Flask!

You can download full source code in my GitHub here

Create a Python project (Python3 here)

1. Make a folder named flask and enter it
2. Create a virtual environment for your python project, by running command python3 -m venv . in your prompt
3. Active the virtual envrionment by source ./bin/activate

By now, the command should look like below:

Install Flask as dependency

Run pip3 install flask in your prompt

Create app.py and write your code

By now, the file name must be app.py, because we will start the program by Flask cli. Flask cli will load app.py by default.

Copy and paste codes as below:

from flask import Flask, request

app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route("/", methods=["GET"])
def get_index():
    return "Hello World"


@app.route("/", methods=["POST"])
def post_index():
    d = request.json
    s = d['keyword']
    if s != None:
        return "Your keyword is {0}".format(s)
    else:
        return "I need your keyword"

Start up the tiny server

Run flask run in your prompt, and it should look like:

Test your GET API

Open the URL http://localhost:5000 in your browser, e.g. Chrome, and you will get a line on your screen.

Test your POST API (with JSON)

Open Postman, and send a new POST request with a JSON body:

Conclusion

So easy! Python ecosystem is productive, by now, you can write much more logic on the tiny server to test your idea!