Simple Flask endpoint design and implementation

Submit in your repo in the file individual/api.py

This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment. Work on it on your own.

Goals

Practice designing a simple API endpoint.
Practice refactoring existing code (in this case, your CLI assignment from Friday) into a new form.
Practice using python's flask module.

1 - files are named and located as specified 2 - /help endpoint correctness and quality 5 - correctness and quality of your endpoint

Remind yourself of the question you focused on for your CLI assignment. You're going to write code to answer that same question, but this time, your user will use a browser to access the data via an API endpoint.
Design an endpoint for your question, and write documentation for your endpoint in the "REQUEST/RESPONSE" style you see if you run my flask_sample.py and point your browser to /help.
Implement your endpoint in a Flask app. This will mostly involve copying the guts of your CLI assignment over to this new file, and just invoking that same code in a slightly different way. The output to your new endpoint should be in JSON form.
Implement a /help endpoint that shows the documentation for your other endpoint.
Put your tiny 2-endpoint API in your git repository at individual/api.py. Also, make sure your data files remain in the data/ directory as in the CLI assignment.

You can easily run the exact same test the grader and I will run to see whether your see how you have done.

Fire up your Flask app.

[setup and activate our own venv] cd your-repo/individual python3 api.py localhost 9999
Open a browser and go to http://localhost:9999/help to read your documentation.
Based on the documentation, go to your endpoint to get the interesting data.

Do not hesitate to copy my flask_sample.py file to form the basis of this assignment. You can put a brief citation at the top of the file. Cut out stuff you're not going to need (e.g., all that movie data and the movies endpoint, notably).
Work iteratively: change and test one small thing at a time. Start, say, with a @app.route('/') with a hello string just to make sure your basic Flask app is working. Then code (and test) /help. etc.
Have fun!