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Building REST API with Python

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Before We Begin

About this Module

Building Blocks of an API in Python

Introduction to REST APIs Structure of a Request and Response Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Web Apps Concurrency vs. Parallel Programming Async-Await in Python Concurrent Programming in Python

Learn the Basics of FastAPI

Introduction to FastAPI

Create First App Using FastAPI

Interactive API Docs - Feature of FastAPI

Path Parameters in FastAPI

Query Parameters in FastAPI

Default and Optional Query Parameters in FastAPI

Request Body in FastAPI

Implement Background Tasks in FastAPI

Implement API With Parallel Processing

Optical Character Recognition API Using Tesseract - Project 1

Tesseract and Pytesseract for OCR Perform OCR Using Python Implement OCR API Using FastAPI - 1 Implement OCR API Using FastAPI - 2 Implement OCR API Using FastAPI - 3

Cloud and Microsoft Azure Services

Introduction to the Cloud Introduction to Microsoft Azure and Its Basic Terminologies Azure App Service Azure Cognitive Services Azure Application Insights Basic Git Commands Cloud and Microsoft Azure Quiz

Text Analytics API Using Azure Cognitive Services - Project 2

Azure Text Analytics Cognitive API Perform Sentiment and Key Phrase Extraction on Text Implement the Azure Text Analytics Service - 1 Implement Azure Text Analytics Service - 2

Deploy the REST API on Microsoft Azure

Push the API to Github Create an App Service and Connect to Github for CI/CD Check the GitHub Actions and Test the App Service Create an Application Insights Resource Implement Logging in API Using Application Insights View the Logs in Application Insights Check the CI/CD Pipeline and Test the Final API

Conclusion

Appendix

How can I Install FastAPI How can I Install Tesseract and Pytesseract

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Introduction to FastAPI

Introduction to FastAPI

Learn about FastAPI, an interesting and new framework to develop web apps in Python.

Introduction to `FastAPI`?

The official website describes FastAPI in the following terms:

FastAPI is a modern [and] fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.

As evident from the name, FastAPI is extremely fast and it owes this to the to out of the box support of the async feature of Python 3.6+. This is why it is recommended to ...