Flask REST API Course (How To)

Building an API with Flask can be pretty simple but you'll often end up with a large amount of code in just one or two files. In other words, it can be messy! But with a few simple tools like Flask-RESTFul, Flask-Limiter, and Flask-HTTPAuth, you can build a clean, well-organized, and strong API with this great, lightweight Python framework.

What you'll learn

• Flask-RESTful
• Token authentication
• Rate limiting

Resourceful Blueprints

The backbone of your Flask API is the Resource class from Flask-RESTful. You'll build strong, intelligent resources and then link them and your Flask app together using the Blueprint feature from Flask itself.

Chevron 12 steps

• What We're Going to Build

  2:17

• Models

  6:41

• Resources

  5:11

• Ingredient Resource

  2 objectives

• Blueprints

  7:25

• Register API

  4 objectives

• Reqparse

  9:15

• Parse the Request

  1 objective

• Marshalling

  12:18

• Ingredient Fields

  2 objectives

• Beyond GET and POST

  10:05

• Status Codes

  1 objective

API Protection

You have a great API but it's wide open to the world. Time to put some locks on the doors with authentication and prevent a stampede with rate limiting. A couple of great Python and Flask packages will handle all of this.

Chevron 8 steps

• Hashing Users

  7:45

• Password hashing

  3 objectives

• User Resource

  6:58

• Create User

  2 objectives

• HTTP Basic Auth

  9:59

• Generating Tokens

  10:34

• Rate Limiting

  8:59

• Review: Flask REST API

  10 questions