Python API Development Fundamentals

1. Your First Step

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Replicate the concepts of RESTful API
• Describe the meaning of different HTTP methods and statuses
• Get hands-on experience on PyCharm IDE
• Build a RESTful API and execute CRUD using Flask
• Use JSON messages to communicate with the APIs
• Test API endpoints using Postman and httpie/curl command-line tools

This chapter introduces API and explains the concepts of web services, API and REST.

Introduction

We are in the internet era, a world where everything is connected. Data flows seamlessly from one place to another. We can get all the information in the world with a few clicks on a website. Take Skyscanner as an example, we just need to put in the date ...