I am in the middle of my personal website development and I am using python to create a "Comment section" which my visitors could leave comments at there in public (which means, everybody can see it, so don't worry about the user name registration things). I already set up the sql database to store those data but only thing I haven't figured out yet was how to get the user input (their comments) from the browser. So, is there any modules in python could do that? (Like, the "Charfield" things in django, but unfortunately I don't use django)
For that you would need a web framework like Bottle or Flask. Bottle is a simple WSGI based web framework for Python.
Using either of these you may write simple REST based APIs, one for set and other for get. The "set" one could accept data from your client side and store it on your database where as your "get" api should return the data by reading it from your DB.
Hope it helps.
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So I recently became interested into knowing how to create a URL shortener without using bittly or other things, but I am not very good at using python to connect with other stuff. All I know is:
Checking to see if the URL is available ( Only to see if it has HTTP:// and unavailable characters, nothing to see if the domain is occupied or not. )
All of the other things... I need help with.
By the way, I COMPLETLY do not understand how to do that, so it would be great if you add comments to show me what is going on.
I suggest you take a look at Flask, it is a framework for building web applications (APIs, web apps, etc.).
DigitalOcean has a nice tutorial on this.
You can either use hashing algorithms for the custom shortened urls, or even let the user pick more readable names (like bit.ly/my-url). In this case you would be storing in a database the shortened url and the long url.
I'm giving myself a project to better learn these languages which I already know a lot of it's just syncing them together I need to get better with. This project is a pretty basic "SIM" game, generate some animals into your profile with login/logout. So far I've got the website aspect with HTML/CSS done and functioning with all the pages I currently need all of which is local host on my desktop. Now I'm moving on to working with Python and possibly some PHP aspects into this to get the login/logout and generate a new animal into your account.
Everything I've done with python so far has been done in IDEL, I'm wondering how to link my python document to my HTML document. Like you would CSS? Or is that not possible if not then how do I connect the two to have python interact with the HTML/CSS that has been created? I'm guessing to need MySQL for a database setup but seeing how much I can get as a simple local host without hosting online?
If you want to setup a localhost with PHP and MYSQL I can recommend XAMP (https://www.apachefriends.org/). In order for your webapp to talk to your Python scripts you will either need to use FLASK or Django to create a python webserver, or use PHP to run python scripts. Either way, you will need to make AJAX requests to an API to get this done.
Edit: Forgot to mention this, but you will need JavaScript in order to do this
I've already built a python script that scrapes some data from a website that require a login-in. My question is: How can i transform this script into an api? For example i send to the api username, password and data required, then it returns the data needed.
A web API is nothing but an HTTP layer over your custom logic so that requests can be served the HTTP way (GET PUT POST DELETE).
Now, the question is, how?
The easiest way is to use already available packages called "web frameworks" which python has in abundance.
The easiest one to probably implement would mostly be Flask.
For a more robust application, you can use django as well.
I have not worked with Django seriously and my only experience is the tutorials on their site.
I am trying to write my own application now, and what I want is to have some sort of API. My idea is that I will later be able to use it with a client written in any other language.
I have the simplest of all apps, a model that has a name and surname field.
So the idea is that I can now write an app lets say in c++ that will send two strings to my Django app so they can be saved in the database as name, surname respectively.
What I know until now is to create a form so a user can enter that information, or have the information in the url, and of curse adding them myself from the admin menu.
What I want though is some other better way, maybe creating a packet that contains that data. Later my client sends this data to my Django webpage and it will extract the info and save it as needed. But I do not know how to do this.
If my suggested method is a good idea, then I would like an example of how this is done. If not the I would like suggestions for possible things I could try out.
Typically, as stated by #DanielRoseman, you certainly want to:
Create a REST API to get data from another web site
Get data, typically in JSON or XML, that will contain all the required data (name and surname)
In the REST controller, Convert this data to the Model and save the Model to the database
Send an answer.
More information here: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/
I am really new to python, just played around with the scrapy framework that is used to crawl websites and extract data.
My question is, how to I pass parameters to a python script that is hosted somewhere online.
E.g. I make following request mysite.net/rest/index.py
Now I want to pass some parameters similar to php like *.php?id=...
Yes that would work. Although you would need to write handlers for extracting the url parameters in index.py. Try import cgi module for this in python.
Please note that there are several robust python based web frameworks available (aka Django, Pylons etc.) which automatically parses your url & forms a dictionary of all it's parameters, plus they do much more like session management, user authentication etc. I would highly recommend you use them for faster code turn-around and less maintenance hassles.