Read data from a Google Sheet from an HTML form using the Google Sheets API. Step by step instruction to create an API project, configure access credentials, obtain an oAuth token and read data from the sheet using HTML, PHP and Javascript.
This is part 1. Setting up a project, and testing the read functionality of the sheets api
How to create a REST API in Python using the Flask Microframework
I built an API around an application called BucketList. The application enables a user to Create, Read, Update and Delete(CRUD) a bucket and the items within. In this article, I will describe the process I went through while developing the API and I will share a few code snippets strictly for example purposes. The code lives on Github and you can find it here.
Deploying a Python Flask app on Heroku
In my previous post I described on a high level how I developed an API using Flask. I talked briefly about how I hosted it via Heroku. In this post, I am going to go deeper and show you how to deploy the API to Heroku step by step.
.. Heroku CLI
You need to download the Heroku CLI which will enable us deploy and manage our application.
After installation login into the Heroku Cli by running this command in the terminal.
heroku login
Flask-RESTful
Flask-RESTful is an extension for Flask that adds support for quickly building REST APIs. It is a lightweight abstraction that works with your existing ORM/libraries. Flask-RESTful encourages best practices with minimal setup. If you are familiar with Flask, Flask-RESTful should be easy to pick up.