Sessions at EuroPython 2011 about Web APIs and Python

Tuesday 21st June 2011

• Web API Mashups in a Python Application

  by Johan Euphrosine

  This talk will cover:
  - How to use OAuth into your webapp so users can give permission to access their data stored in third party web application.
  - How your webapp can interact with their Web API using RESTful JSON protocols.

  This talk is suitable for beginners already familiar with any WSGI web framework.

  This talk will be illustrated with code samples using Google App Engine and Google APIs client library.

  • Google App Engine
  • OAuth
  • Python
  • Web APIs

  At 5:15pm to 6:15pm, Tuesday 21st June

  Coverage video slide deck

Friday 24th June 2011

• An iPhone-Python love affair: Building APIs for mobile

  by Nate Aune and Anna Callahan

  Mobile apps are the hot item of the day -- and the best mobile apps are backed by a great website. Python web developer Nate Aune and iPhone developer Anna Callahan will show you how we built a simple music web app in Django with a native iPhone app that communicates with it. Attendees of this talk will see a concrete case study of building an application that exposes an API for mobile devices.

  Our web app exposes a JSON API for sending and receiving data from the mobile device. We’ll talk about why we chose Django and the TastyPie API package, and discuss other Python-based frameworks that could be used to build the API such as Pyramid, Flask and Bottle. We’ll also compare REST and custom APIs to understand best practices for building APIs designed for mobile devices.

  • Django
  • iPhone
  • Python
  • Web APIs

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Friday 24th June

  Coverage video write-up