Pythonista Flask example

Little Flask app that demonstrates iTunes Search API and Pythonista Objective-C APIs in iOS. You can also run the iTunes Search API example on macOS by switching to macos branch.

iOS Requirements

• Pythonista 3

iOS Setup

Create a new Empty Script in Pythonista to Documents root. Copy & paste this Gist.

The setup script will download this Git repo as a zip file and will extract the zip file.

Note: the setup script will overwrite existing pythonista-flask-example folder if it exists.

Run setup script.

iOS Usage

Run flask_server.py in pythonista-flask-example folder.

Open http://localhost:5000 URL in iOS web browser.

macOS Requirements

• Python 3 installed (including venv)

macOS Setup

Clone this repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/jlehikoinen/pythonista-flask-example.git

$ cd pythonista-flask-example

Switch to macos branch:

$ git checkout macos

Setup venv:

$ python3 -m venv flask

$ source flask/bin/activate

$ pip3 install flask

$ pip3 install requests

macOS Usage

Run Flask server:

$ python3 flask_server.py

Open http://localhost:5000 URL in macOS web browser.

After testing, exit virtualenv:

$ deactivate

macOS TLS tests

Switch to tls branch:

$ git checkout tls

Install certs/hoax.fi Root CA Certificate.mobileconfig config profile.

Setup venv:

$ python3 -m venv flask

$ source flask/bin/activate

$ pip3 install --upgrade pip

$ pip3 install flask

$ pip3 install requests

$ pip3 install pyopenssl

Run Flask server with cert parameters:

$ python3 flask_server.py certs/300/300.hoax.fi.crt certs/300/300.hoax.fi.key

Add <my ip address> 300.hoax.fi to /etc/hosts.

Open https://300.hoax.fi URL in macOS web browser.