An API Manager for all your APIs

A lean API that manages all your other APIs. Written in python using the Flask framework.

Description

This app is an API that manages all your other APIs. The purpose is to easily store all your API credentials (keys and url) so that users need not worry about all the different connections and keys needed to access different APIs.

Setup

This app requires setting up:

• YAML file with your API keys
• Environment variable

Create your YAML file

Create a YAML file with your API keys. We store the API keys in a YAML file (and not in the .py file) because we do not want to expore the keys to others.

census: &census
    key: 'fa264747f925262537dc391bdkahfjkgsdf89'

Setup your environment variable

This variable stores the path where your YAML file is located. You will call the variable in your Flask app and load your YAML file. We set an environment variable so that we can move this app to different servers/computers without hardcoding the path of your YAML file.

Enter the environment variable in your .bash_profile or .bashrc in the home directory

export API_CONFIG=/User/username

Running the app

In your terminal, run

python app.py

Now make an API request any way you normally would.