Building RESTful Python Web Services

Making HTTP requests to the Flask API

Now, we can run the api/api.py script that launches Flask's development server to compose and send HTTP requests to our unsecure and simple Web API (we will definitely add security later). Execute the following command.

python api/api.py

The following lines show the output after we execute the previous command. The development server is listening at port 5000.

 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
 * Restarting with stat
 * Debugger is active!
 * Debugger pin code: 294-714-594

With the previous command, we will start Flask development server and we will only be able to access it in our development computer. The previous command starts the development server in the default IP address, ...