It’s next to impossible to go wrong using Flask for a lightweight web project or a basic REST API, but you’ll face heavy lifting if you try to build anything larger. Flask’s central appeal ...

The OpenAPI specification, and the Swagger suite of tools built around it, make it incredibly easy for Python developers to create, document and manually test the RESTful APIs they create. Regardless ...

And that summarizes the basics of extracting REST API data using Python. If you ever need a dataset that is geared towards your particular interests or projects, public APIs are often available.