A tool for generating HTTP APIs off of static files.
Free software: GNU General Public License v3
$ pip install static-api
$ static_api <dir> --port=<port_number>
This runs a Flask app. The URLs map to the .json files inside <dir>. You can also specify a port with --port. If unset, it will use port 5000.
Example:
# You have a directory named dummy_api and inside it
# is a directory named users.
$ ls -l dummy_api
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 12 dyu staff 408 Jul 31 21:08 users
# Inside users/ are files named 1.json and 2.json
$ ls -l dummy_api/users
total 2
-rw-r--r--@ 1 dyu staff 102 Jul 31 21:12 1.json
-rw-r--r--@ 1 dyu staff 104 Jul 31 21:12 2.json
Let's display the contents of 1.json::
$ cat dummy_api/users/1.json
It's a simple multi-line JSON file.
{
"username": "jdoe",
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Doe"
}
Now let's run static_api and serve responses based on files inside dummy_api
$ static_api dummy_api
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
If you visit http://127.0.0.1:5000/users/1/, it will return this response:
{
"username": "jdoe",
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Doe"
}
If you want to make a "list" endpoint like http://127.0.0.1:5000/users/, make sure you have a file named users.json.
{
"error": false,
"data": ["john", "paul", "george", "ringo"]
}
This package was created with Audrey Roy Greenfeld's cookiecutter project and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.