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This is a riff on a Flask tutorial found here: http://learn.adicu.com/webdev/
When I first started in web development one of the first things I wanted to do was connect to someone else's API and aggregate their data into my own website. This application is a simple example of that idea.
Built with Python 2.7 and Flask