Creating and Hosting a Personal API with Flask and Code Capsules

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Open Exchange Rates

Import requests From flask import Flask, jsonify # Import Flask, import jsonify to return JSON info App = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/') # Create main page of web-application Def index(): return "Welcome to my API!" # Display text on main page EXCHANGE_URL = 'https://openexchangerates.org/api/latest.json?app_id=YOUR-API-KEY-HERE' EXCHANGE_PARAMS = {'symbols':'ZAR,EUR,CAD'} Exchange_data = requests.get(EXCHANGE_URL, EXCHANGE_PARAMS) WEATHER_URL = 'http://api.weatherstack.com/current?access_key=YOUR-API-KEY-HERE' WEATHER_PARAMS = {'query':'Cape Town'} Weather = requests.get(WEATHER_URL,params=WEATHER_PARAMS) If __name__ == '__main__': app.run() # Run the application.

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Gunicorn

Gunicorn is a WSGI server that will help serve our Python application (the API hosted on Code Capsules).

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