Can we natively make a request to an external API ?

[BobSquarePants]

Hi everyone,

Is it natively possible with flask to query an external api ? ( with a HTTP GET )

or do we need to use either another package or

from urllib.request import urlopen 

Thanks.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Flask is concerned with the server side, if you need a client as well those are provided by other packages

[BobSquarePants]

Indeed Flask is working backend (server side.) but server side it's also possible to make request to any external URI/URL.. The question was, is it natively possible with Flask ?

[ThiefMaster]

This is completely out of the scope of Flask. Use requests or a similar library to make outgoing requests. There is pretty much nothing in Flask (or werkzeug) that would make it logical to include an http client there...

[BobSquarePants]

Thanks @ThiefMaster

It didn't came to my mind that a common http request was indeed part of an http client.
so indeed I'm looking over requests

[davidism]

@BobSquarePants your last few questions here have not been particularly high quality. I suggest you take much more time on your own to learn about Python and Flask and research solutions before asking here again.