Python Web Scraping Cookbook

How it works

There really isn't a lot of code, which is the beauty of Flask-RESTful. The code begins with importing of flask and flask_restful.

from flask import Flaskfrom flask_restful import Resource, Api

These are followed with code to set up the initial configuration of Flask-RESTful:

app = Flask(__name__)api = Api(app)

Next comes a definition of a class which represents the implementation of our API:

class JobListing(Resource):    def get(self, job_listing_id):        print("Request for job listing with id: " + job_listing_id)        return {'YouRequestedJobWithId': job_listing_id}

What we will have Flask-RESTful do is map HTTP requests to methods in this class. Specifically, by convention GET requests will be mapped to member functions named get. There ...