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A few years ago I started with python, but only with client applications.
Now, I want to start with web apps.

I have a lot of knowledge in web-scrapping with the requests module. So I want to continue with that, but this time through a web app.
What I want is to return a response as JSON to the user.

Because I do not have any experience with python web development I need help to start.
First question, what framework to use: Django, Flask, or some other?
Are there some free web pages with those frameworks, or maybe is better to install framework locally (for training purposes)?
I already tried with pythonanywhere, but it seems they do not allow requests module to free users.

Thx
If you'd like to try flask, here's an excellent tutorial which will get you started
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the...ello-world