How to Create a Simple and Practical API with Python and Flask

Author(s): James Asher

Originally published on Towards AI.

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Flask is my favourite Python web framework by far. It’s often described as a micro-framework for its bare-bones style — a style I really appreciate. It’s scalable and simple. It has great documentation and can be used for a wide variety of applications.

I’m going to assume that you have Python installed already and that you have set up a working environment (if you haven't — just do it and stop being that person).

Once you’re in your desired environment and working directory then you simply have to install Flask as below.

Pip install Flask

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