AutoScraper and Flask: Create an API From Any Website in Less Than 5 Minutes

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In this tutorial, we are going to create our own e-commerce search API with support for both eBay and Etsy search results. We are able to achieve this goal in fewer than 20 lines of Python code for each site using AutoScraper and Flask. The final code for this tutorial is available on GitHub. This is a development setup suitable for developing and testing. For production usage, please check Flask’s deployment options. This tutorial is intended for personal and educational use. If you want to scrape websites, you can check their policies regarding the scraping bots.