Deploying API on Heroku

Step 1: You need to create an account on Heroku.

Step 2: Install Git on your machine.

Step 3: Install Heroku on your machine.

Step 4: Login to your Heroku Account

heroku login

Step 5: Install gunicorn which is a pure-Python HTTP server for WSGI applications. It allows you to run any Python application concurrently by running multiple Python processes.

pip install gunicorn

Step 6: We need to create a profile which is a text file in the root directory of our application, to explicitly declare what command should be executed to start our app.

web: gunicorn CricGFG:app

Step 7: We further create a requirements.txt file that includes all the necessary modules which Heroku needs to run our flask application.

pip freeze >> requirements.txt

Step 8: Create an app on Heroku, click here.

Step 9: We now initialize a git repository and add our files to it.

git init
git add .
git commit -m "Cricket API Completed"

Step 10: We will now direct Heroku towards our git repository.

heroku git:remote -a cricgfg

Step 11: We will now push our files on Heroku.

git push heroku master

Finally, our API is now available on https://cricgfg.herokuapp.com/

Cricket is one of the famous outdoor sport played worldwide. There are very few APIs providing live scoreboards and none of them are free to use. Using any of the scoreboards available we can create API for ourselves. This method not only works for Cricket Scoreboard but also for any information available online. Following is the flow in which this blog would guide to create an API and deploy it. 

• Setting up the App Directory
• Web Scrape data from NDTV Sports.
  • Beautiful Soup in Python would be used.
• Create an API.
  • Flask would be used.
• Heroku would be used for deployment,