A sample Flask API to showcase usage of MongoDB in Python

blog.py

from flask import Flask, request,jsonify
from pymongo import MongoClient
from bson.objectid import ObjectId
from datetime import datetime

app = Flask(__name__)

client = MongoClient()
db = client.blogdb
blogs = db.blogs

@app.route('/eazydevelop/blog', methods=['GET','POST'])
def blog():

    if request.method == 'POST':

        data = request.json
        name = data.get('name','Unnamed Blog')
        created_by = data.get('created_by','Anonymous')
        created_on = datetime.now().timestamp()

        result = blogs.insert_one({
            'name': name,
            'created_by': created_by,
            'created_on': created_on
        })

        response = {
            'message': 'Inserted successfully.',
            'obj_id': str(result.inserted_id)
        }

        return jsonify(response), 201

    elif request.method == 'GET':

        result = blogs.find({},{'_id':0})

        response = {
            'data': list(result)
        }

        return jsonify(response)


@app.route('/eazydevelop/blog/<blog_id>', methods=['GET'])
def single_blog(blog_id):

    result = blogs.find_one({'_id':ObjectId(blog_id)})

    result['_id'] = str(result['_id'])

    response = {
        'data': result
    }

    return jsonify(response)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)