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applications through machine-to-machine communication.</p>
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<h2>API creation frameworks</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.django-rest-framework.org/">Django REST framework</a> and
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<a href="http://www.flaskapi.org/">Flask API</a> are popular options for exposing
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APIs from Django and Flask web applications.</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.django-rest-framework.org/">Django REST framework</a> and
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<a href="https://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">Tastypie</a> are
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the two most widely used API frameworks to use with Django. The edge
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currently goes to Django REST framework based on rough community sentiment.</p>
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<p><a href="http://flask-restful.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">Flask-RESTful</a> and
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<a href="http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/api/">Flask API</a> are popular libraries for
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exposing APIs from Flask web applications.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/toastdriven/restless">Restless</a> is a lightweight API
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framework that aims to be framework agnostic. The general concept is that
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you can use the same API code for Django, Flask, Bottle, Pyramid or any
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other WSGI framework with minimal porting effort.</p>
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<h2>API creation resources</h2>
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<p><a href="http://pydanny.com/choosing-an-api-framework-for-django.html">Choosing an API framework for Django</a>
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by <a href="https://twitter.com/pydanny">PyDanny</a> contains questions and insight
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into what makes a good API framework and which one you should currently
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choose for Django.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Solution4Future/python-restful-webservices-with-python-flask-and-django-solutions">RESTful web services with Python</a>
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is an interesting overview of the Python API frameworks space.</p>
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<h3>What's next after building an API for your web app?</h3>
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# API Creation
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Creating and exposing APIs allows your web application to interact with other
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applications through machine-to-machine communication.
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## API creation frameworks
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* [Django REST framework](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/) and
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[Flask API](http://www.flaskapi.org/) are popular options for exposing
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APIs from Django and Flask web applications.
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* [Django REST framework](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/) and
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[Tastypie](https://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) are
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the two most widely used API frameworks to use with Django. The edge
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currently goes to Django REST framework based on rough community sentiment.
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* [Flask-RESTful](http://flask-restful.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) and
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[Flask API](http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/api/) are popular libraries for
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exposing APIs from Flask web applications.
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* [Restless](https://github.com/toastdriven/restless) is a lightweight API
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framework that aims to be framework agnostic. The general concept is that
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you can use the same API code for Django, Flask, Bottle, Pyramid or any
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other WSGI framework with minimal porting effort.
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## API creation resources
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* [Choosing an API framework for Django](http://pydanny.com/choosing-an-api-framework-for-django.html)
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by [PyDanny](https://twitter.com/pydanny) contains questions and insight
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into what makes a good API framework and which one you should currently
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choose for Django.
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* [RESTful web services with Python](http://www.slideshare.net/Solution4Future/python-restful-webservices-with-python-flask-and-django-solutions)
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is an interesting overview of the Python API frameworks space.
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### What's next after building an API for your web app?

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