This post shows how to make a Raspberry Pi Carbon Dioxide Monitor using a raspberry pi connected to a USB carbon dioxide monitor. The project is deliberately bare bones and leaves several opportunities for refinement, improvement and general tinkering. What we are aiming to make The following schematic shows what we will be building up… Read More »
Wikimedia has an API which lets you compare Wikipedia pages, and in some cases modify pages and information within the Wikimedia group. The main page for all Wikimedia API information is here: In this post I am most interested in the Wikipedia compare API, to show how you use it to see differences between versions… Read More »
Streaming data is an important part of modern data processing. If you are just starting out, and perhaps don’t yet work somewhere with access to a big data streaming infrastructure, it can be hard to know where to start. This post talks you through a simple wikipedia data stream example from the wikimedia documentation. Wikipedia… Read More »
JSON is a common format for sending data to and from a RESTful API. In this post we’ll see how we can allow a simple Flask API to receive a JSON input. This post extends my previous post which made a simple Flask RESTful API and uses the Flask ‘get_json()’ method to accept JSON input.… Read More »
Flask is a lightweight python web framework which can used for creating RESTful APIs. This post shows you how to make a simple Docker Flask SQLite API. This post builds on the excellent Flask API Lesson on The Programming Historian. If you just want to dive straight into a Docker Flask SQLite API example you… Read More »