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Python API Development Fundamentals
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Python API Development Fundamentals

by Jack Chan, Ray Chung, Jack Huang
November 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
372 pages
6h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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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 ...

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