Create A Python API in 12 Minutes

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Are you learning programming and wondering what an API is? An API is an Application Programming Interface that allows different software or systems to communicate with one another. I'll show you how to whip up your very own API in just 10 minutes using Python and Flask.
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00:00 | What is an API?
02:02 | Dependency Setup
02:49 | Flask API Setup
04:49 | HTTP Methods
05:28 | GET Routes
08:46 | POST Routes
10:38 | Testing APIs
11:42 | Next Steps
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[@TechWithTim]

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[@blisterj]

not another monthly subscription app

[@ban-prem-001]

next video should be on how to deploy the sites, especially using free services like pythonanywhere

[@scrung]

An API is just an interface of callable functions. It can be a code library that simplifies some complex tasks, a web API (which is what this video talks about) or a bunch of functions that a running process on your computer exposes for other programs to interact with

[@josecintron85]

great video, explain the concept in a simple manner, no fuzz, no-frills. I wish a video like this existed when I created my first API a couple of years ago.

[@hitmanLis]

just love that you get to point fast and cover just enough details to get people going! Bravo!

[@user-rz7fj2le2i]

This definition of API is completely in the context of web development. There are lots of non web based APIs provided by python packages for things like machine learning, scientific computing etc. and distinguishing between the two at the start of the video would be helpful for people from non web based backgrounds.

[@TechWithTim]

Actually that’s a good point, an oversight from me, thanks for the feedback!

[@jaylooppworld381]

i was about to say the same. The video is great but not usefull for all purposes

[@cuongbang7721]

Yeah, more like "REST API" 🙂

[@God0f0dd]

I was wondering the same thing… the notion of an API in computer science predates the internet by many, many years. All that low level stuff the browser is doing so users can run web apps? Yeah, generally exposed through platform API. 😊

[@jeromesimms]

Hey Tim, in this video you looked at creating APIs with Flask and the way it is done is mostly with functions and decorators but at the end of the video there was a recommendation to your full Flask API video. When I watched the full Flask API video it seemed to be using class based views, or just a completely different style to what is showed in the video. So could you make a new updated longer form tutorial on using Flask for creating APIs and in it could you discuss about whether to use classes or functions with annotations and if we should use one when we should. Thanks for this vid because I was really happy to learn how to get a simple API up and running with Python.

[@ismailibrahim879]

thank you for being a huge part of the tech industry.. we appreciate you.

[@cody_codes_youtube]

This was such a great explanation of an API. Great editing too! Well done

[@DreamfactorySoftware]

Thanks for featuring DreamFactory in this video! Keep up the great work! 👍😊

[@nyosgomboc2392]

Nice, simple, and right-to-the-point tutorial.

[@HDArtzy]

sweet video dude,, you've honestly been helping me for like 4 years at least now with Python tutorials and school. I want to start getting into the field now but I dont know how to start. Thank you for your guides

[@farid5347]

Thank you so much Tim for your lessons! You helped me a lot to know more about Python amenities

[@sasakanjuh7660]

Nice video, as always, though I'd just suggest making a virtual environment (I know you know this, but the people watching/following the tutorial might not), especially since you're using python, so it's super easy :)

[@sugaslate14]

Read my mind

[@rahulsrinivasvustepally9224]

Hi

[@user-re8nw9wk4n]

Great presenter for every level learner! Your kind of tech people are rare. You are not only a outstanding performer in your profession but also a great presenter well organized and 100% clarity.

[@TechWithTim]

Appreciate that so much!

[@nehaagrawal7850]

Great information. Thanks for sharing . How can we increase timeout for the api here as the default timeout is 1 minute ?

[@SaschaJanetschek]

No idea what you did there, since it's my first time using Flask, but it works. Thank you

[@alimihakeem841]

Nice one Tim.. Thanks for sharing this great and wonderful content.. Hoping to see more beneficial videos on flask.

[@yerneroneroipas8668]

Great tutorial, followed along and it was easy to understand. I guess a great follow up would be a video explaining how to use this with a real example.

[@JorgeEscobarMX]

Ohhhh Iwatched it already, I'm giving a rewatch to it and look for a flask course. I can think of making my python scripts accessible from the web. Thats a super power.

[@panic_seller]

6 Years experience in every aspect computing and technology but somehow I never came across API development, very interesting. I've just been calling and calling them but never writing them

[@ambikeya_tech]

Fantastic tutorial! Concise yet comprehensive. Appreciate the step-by-step approach. Simplifies Python API creation. Thank you for sharing your expertise!

[@FranciscoIgnisci]

Someone would tell me the configuration of the font?? I loved it

[@yousifahmed257]

Thank you so much. I like yours tutorials

[@gamer_tv367]

You are a very good teacher I learn better from your ch.thanks🤞🏽

[@sohamshah4666]

I was just thinking i will be need like this content .....and at same time you posted what a great time thanks for this tim very helpful .....i am working on projects flask

[@Akgaming-games]

Hi, Can requests be used to test and not postman??

[@360withpaul]

Thank you very much for sharing, very interesting topic! Keep it up 🔥

[@REgamesplayer]

GET routes part is wrong. I get 404 error despite seemingly having identical code. What is unsaid in this part is that you need to type this address. It is quite confusing at first where in the code this get-user 123?extra="hello" is referenced and why base link which your server gives you suddenly stops working.

[@IanWeingardt]

I have the exact same problem, I'm scrolling through the comments for awnsers.

[@warloccarlos8522]

Hi @TechWithTim Please recommend a SAST & DAST tool specifically for Python based web application. I am aware that for web application we can use any available tool, however I am curious for only Flask and Django based web application.

[@phillip.dustin]

Very timely video! Thank you!

[@manofculture9915]

I needed this vid, Thank you

[@BonVoyageWorld]

Great video like always Tim 👍🏽🍷

[@centralcoding]

Brother Tim, do you have this course with Django please???

[@FRANKODE]

Which video editor do you use

[@stuartmould2694]

Great vid thanks. I think you might have missed some info if you can confirm. When you demo the GET request you're using the id:123, however we don't set that up so we can't repeat the steps as you have as you have presumably already created a user in this scenario?

[@IanWeingardt]

I have this problem too

[@HopeMichaels]

i've recently watched your KZbin video on why random generated numbers are not really random. I have a case that i've been working on figuring out. There is a Game that produces decimal generated numbers randomly and the play is for you to predict the next number that it will generate like it gives out 2.92, 1.65, 1.04, 3.75, 6.73, 1.53 ...... it may even reach 10000.0 some times. Is there a way that i can use those previous generated numbers to predict the next numbers that it will generate?

[@TdukeTduke]

The delivery of the information was very clear, but I had difficulty understanding the "why" behind a lot of things you did in the video.

[@GlitchyGlobe]

Exactly

[@Boghost1430]

How do you install libraries without needing a venv

[@learnhumanity6701]

Awesome Explanation❤

[@luisvillar8320]

Great video, just the right amount of information at the right pace, and the name should be changed to say "in 10 Minutes".

[@JohnMichaelCagle12]

Great video!

[@memoriesxt]

Would to do a REST API for python too?

[@VasilijMaksimov]

Спасибо за понятное изложение материала

[@Snowfon]

What keyboard do you have?

[@pungushe]

Thank you so much for this video

[@arpitkumar4525]

Simple and to the point

[@martinn1071]

thanks so much. brilliat

[@arsiarskila]

Hi, what would the html code look like?

[@jannisheider5340]

Thanks, its a really good Video for starting with API 👍👍👍👍

[@techcolor2106]

Thank you sir!

[@dr.dark.flames]

Damn i remember when u had 20k. Time flies

[@user-yp3ik9rx5c]

Make a tutorial on Falcon microframework

[@hinahammad1047]

Bro really taught web development in python in 12 minutes

[@timbrap4693]

Why not use FastAPI?

[@GoodBoyDanny]

This is cool, what's the price?

[@AwesomeRandomVids]

At 8:33, I'm getting a 404 error. My url stops at :5000 and doesn't list 'get-user' etc. I went through the code letter by letter and can't find what I might be missing. Anyone have any ideas?

[@awesomegirl5315]

I think you have to put in /get-user/123?extra="hello" in the url manually and then it works. I had the same issue.

[@AwesomeRandomVids]

@@awesomegirl5315 I'll give that a try, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of the code? Shouldn't it do that for you? Sorry if I sound ignorant. I am

[@IanWeingardt]

Same problem...

[@Hiturion]

just a note: when you call the api in the url, you do not need to put "extra" between quotes. ;)

[@himanshunanda1994]

not able to install flask tried changing the virtual environment as well someone if faced the same issue please help

[@Zvend]

Im not sure if thats a "my-perspective"-problem, because with Python API i actually thought u re going to teach how to write an API and not a REST APi :S if its not a "my-perspective"-problem, could u change the title to Rest API?

[@carloseduardodesouza9245]

vary good video... Thanks

[@ojedachristian1970]

Hi, I need to create an api with python to modify the banner of different servers and host, does someone have an idea about how to develop this api for a practice? This is new for me

[@user-tj4qf2zc3b]

Thanks so much

[@prateeksinha08]

Is there any way to change the name of C:\Users\Tim to C:\Users\Prateek, I have this problem in my laptop where it's name is 91700 and I wanna change it to prateek(my actual name)

[@damilolaasepo1165]

i tried the get part and got an error : The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

[@IanWeingardt]

Same error for me!

[@hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh159]

And why dont you implement rest into it?

[@getreadytotube]

Thanks!

[@donewithwork]

Another great video :)

[@muborak_oy_suhbatlari]

how to open dream factory admin page?

[@GlitchyGlobe]

Cam someone explain m3 why do we do that?

[@JorgeEscobarMX]

wow, this is way easier than nodejs with expressjs.

[@user-jr7fw9gu1f]

sir can you make a vid , about creating minecraft in python using ursina engine!

[@King_Mambaa]

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP WHAT iS HE USNG iS THAT REPLiT? AND iF SO HOW DO i PULL UP THAT TERMiNAL ALL i HAVE iS SHELL AND SHELL DOESNT LET ME PASTE ANTHiNG

[@user-ki8si8ro6f]

great video but i had to slow it down to .75 playback to keep up with what you were saying/doing, could you please slow it down for us beginners, as the info is valuable but i have to playback every 10 seconds

[@tonymen84]

have you heard of spacetraders api

[@Kirkrrr]

I'm a bit confused by who this video is supposed to be for. Experienced developers? Because the information conveyed is presented at such a fast pace and with so little explanation, it's clearly not for people who aren't familiar with most of what's discussed already. I'll rewatch it another dozen times and hopefully it'll sink in, but this can't be described as "well explained."

[@user-ki8si8ro6f]

im having the same problem, the video is very informative but also very fast paced, i reduced the playback speed to better grasp whats happening in the video

[@Hacker_Baby]

I would recommend going through and doing a primer course on Python prior to this, just so you have a better understanding of some of the more advanced topics such as the function decorators that flask uses to create routes. Once you do that, this video will make a lot more sense, and you won’t feel so intimidated lol

[@Notepad123]

All of his videos are fast paced

[@lederpium1965]

the video was good for me i think u need to probably work on the basics a bit more and maybe itll get easier to understad

[@rosalcgaivao1546]

Mi o afonso já está a responder as perguntas, estou com dificuldades

[@ARSNAL794]

Lean on

[@FricoSimon-li6hd]

great vid

[@TimeToGG]

Nice.

[@thelifehackerpro9943]

Use fast api and create apis even faster

[@jokereenoo7025]

Hero❤❤❤

[@jyvben1520]

api is not only for database, can be instructing other devices to do something, might not even need a reply.

[@PA-bu5cs]

Your amazing - But why do you need to have som much speed in your tutorials ? I might be the only one thinking it would be nicer to have a slower rytm...

[@user-ki8si8ro6f]

youre not alone, i had to reduce the playback speed and he was STILL moving lightning fast lol

[@TheBeast-lu9qm]

you got old but stil very good

[@rameshsilva8212]

👍

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[@amirmirzababapour6016]

nice video and the beard suits you well.

[@manojahlawat2881]

way of teaching is very complex

[@nehanthv4238]

3:04

[@cnelly749]

Should’ve made this video with FastAPI it’s much better and easier

[@rosalcgaivao1546]

Mi consegues ver?

[@afonsopalmeira6951]

Resposta Q1: def forest_coverage(area_file, coverage_file): # Read data from files with open(area_file, 'r') as area_file: area_lines = area_file.readlines()[1:] # Skip header with open(coverage_file, 'r') as coverage_file: coverage_lines = coverage_file.readlines()[1:] # Skip header # Initialize the dictionary to store the result data_dict = {} # Process data for each country for area_line, coverage_line in zip(area_lines, coverage_lines): # Extract data from lines area_data = area_line.strip().split('\t') coverage_data = coverage_line.strip().split('\t') # Extract relevant information country_name = area_data[0] country_area = float(area_data[1]) # Extract coverage information for 2009 and 2019 coverage_2009 = { "coverage_percentage": float(coverage_data[1]), "coverage": country_area * float(coverage_data[1]) / 100 } coverage_2019 = { "coverage_percentage": float(coverage_data[2]), "coverage": country_area * float(coverage_data[2]) / 100 } # Calculate growth growth = ( (coverage_2019["coverage"] - coverage_2009["coverage"]) / coverage_2009["coverage"] ) * 100 if coverage_2009["coverage"] != 0 else "-" # Round growth to 2 decimal places if it's a number growth = round(growth, 2) if growth != "-" else growth # Create the country entry in the result dictionary data_dict[country_name] = { "area": country_area, 2009: coverage_2009, 2019: coverage_2019, "growth": growth } return data_dict # Example usage: area_file_path = "surface_area_sq_km.tsv" coverage_file_path = "forest_coverage_percent.tsv" result_dict = forest_coverage(area_file_path, coverage_file_path) print(result_dict)

[@wadahkodeofficial5389]

Cool

[@afonsopalmeira6951]

Resposta do 1 chatgpt: vê pelos teus olhos e mudas as coisas, não consigo ver o input o chat faz melhor que eu: def forest_coverage(area_file, coverage_file): # Read data from files with open(area_file, 'r') as area_file: area_lines = area_file.readlines()[1:] # Skip header with open(coverage_file, 'r') as coverage_file: coverage_lines = coverage_file.readlines()[1:] # Skip header # Initialize the dictionary to store the result data_dict = {} # Process data for each country for area_line, coverage_line in zip(area_lines, coverage_lines): # Extract data from lines area_data = area_line.strip().split('\t') coverage_data = coverage_line.strip().split('\t') # Extract relevant information country_name = area_data[0] country_area = float(area_data[1]) # Extract coverage information for 2009 and 2019 coverage_2009 = { "coverage_percentage": float(coverage_data[1]), "coverage": country_area * float(coverage_data[1]) / 100 } coverage_2019 = { "coverage_percentage": float(coverage_data[2]), "coverage": country_area * float(coverage_data[2]) / 100 } # Calculate growth growth = ( (coverage_2019["coverage"] - coverage_2009["coverage"]) / coverage_2009["coverage"] ) * 100 if coverage_2009["coverage"] != 0 else "-" # Round growth to 2 decimal places if it's a number growth = round(growth, 2) if growth != "-" else growth # Create the country entry in the result dictionary data_dict[country_name] = { "area": country_area, 2009: coverage_2009, 2019: coverage_2019, "growth": growth } return data_dict # Example usage: area_file_path = "surface_area_sq_km.tsv" coverage_file_path = "forest_coverage_percent.tsv" result_dict = forest_coverage(area_file_path, coverage_file_path) print(result_dict)

[@mostafaghobashy2724]

instead of saying "underscore underscore" you can say "dunder" which is double underscore

[@scrung]

problem with that is most people dont know what a dunder member is, so if you dont want to confuse the average learner then it’s better to use terms that theyll understand in the meantime

[@Zancb]

FYI it's confusing when you pronounce "root" and "route" the same. When you say "create other routes" it sounds like you're saying "create other roots", which, from a web/filesystem perspective, sounds very silly.

[@senzocalvinshinga6532]

I wish I was this smart

[@BesmirZanaj]

This is missing so many info

[@jaysonp9426]

Or...45 seconds witu GPT4

[@REgamesplayer]

This practice is why you will remain a bad programmer which can be replaced by very same GPT4. Core skill of programming is not producing the end result, but understanding what you are doing and how to solve problems which happen along the way. Context of what you are doing is more important than code.

[@jaysonp9426]

@@REgamesplayer k

[@ravikantjain]

noice video