Build An API With The Django Rest Framework Using Python (Udemy.com)
Use Python and Django To Create Your Own API In No Time With The Django Rest Framework!
Created by: John Elder
Last updated November 2023
What you will learn
- Introductory Django Rest Framework
- How to Build Your Own API With Django and Python
- How To Server your own API's In Your Django App
- How To Add Data To Your API
- Download and Install Python
- Install Django
- Install Django Rest Framework
- How To Create Serializers
- How To Manage URL's and Routers
- How to Create Views
Quality Score
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Overall Score : 90 / 100
Course Description
Building your own API with Django and Python can seem overwhelming at first, but it doesn;t have to be! In this course I’ll walk you through it step by step and you’ll be building your first API in MINUTES. You’ll be amazed how quick and easy it is to create very professional API's using the Django Rest Framework, even if you have no programming or web design experience at all.
Watch over my shoulder as I build a simple little API that lists some of my online courses step by step right in front of you. You’ll follow along and build your own copy. By the time we’re finished, you’ll have a solid understanding of the Django Rest Framework and how to use it to build awesome API's that will serve up any data you like.
The course contains 20 videos – and is just over 1.5 hours long. Watch the videos at your own pace, and post questions along the way if you get stuck. You don’t need any special knowledge or software to take this course, though any experience with basic Django or Python is a plus. You don’t really need to know the Python programming language, but it certainly helps!. I’ll walk you through EVERYTHING.
Django is a great web development tool and learning it has never been this easy.
What We'll Build...
We'll build an API that let's you show any sort of data that you like. The data will be publicly accessible through your API using JSON, just like any API you've ever used before.
We'll mainly use the popular Django Rest Framework to build and server our App. You'll learn how to create a database model to hold your data, how to build a Serializer to convert the database data to and from JSON, and urls and Routes to create webpages for you API.
Sign up today and I'll see you on the inside!
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
1,229 Reviews
John Elder
John Elder is a pioneer in Web Development who created one of the first Internet advertising networks back in 1997. He sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the dot com boom and then went on to create the best-selling Submission-Spider search engine submission software that's been used by over 3 million individuals and small businesses in over 45 countries.
Today he teaches Web Development courses at Codemy the online code school he founded.
John graduated with honors with a degree in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an ArtSci Scholar.
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Reviews
By Adam Toepfer on 10/16/2025
Learned the basics of DJANGO Rest API. Instructor moves a bit fast, but I could rewind and replay. No deep explanations or walkthroughs. Just high level. I would look for another course for a deeper understanding. Regardless I am happy about the base level knowledge I have gained.
By Joyce Moore on 10/23/2024
Instruction was clean, concise, and to the point. Videos where short and to the point making it easy to actually create the code while watching. Broken down into the specific steps like they were made it easy to break off and pick back up when one had a disruption to the training.
By Anonymized User on 8/28/2023
It felt really good to have some kind of tangible results at the end. There were some errors in the process, but I managed to fix them through StakOverflow posts. Great for beginners. I'm motivated to take this learning further. Thank you for the lecture!
By Ewelina Jabłońska on 2/3/2022
I liked that course very much, Your expression and user-friendly explanations are great for me. I appreciate that kind of knowledge transfer, especially when somebody needs to learn in the evenings ;) Thanks a lot.
By Curt Beck on 1/29/2022
Very good introduction for beginners on getting an API up and running with Python. Each video is concise, informative and never drags. The only thing that was lacking was no discussion on API security and how to implement that in Django. While the author does mention that it's beyond the scope of the course, security is just too important to ignore all together.
By MANUEL SPIES on 1/29/2022
Great course to quickly get started on a high-level on django rest framework. Nice short but well explained videos. Highly recommend this video for the first time diving into django rest framework
By Tirthankar Dutta on 1/21/2022
The instructor has awesome and easily understandable delivery skills. This quality of the instructor makes this course stand out. Furthermore, the short lectures are very appealing. However, the course has a drawback, namely, even though this is a beginner level DRF course, certain videos could have been easily eliminated or shortened so that more important (essential) concepts such as API security and the use of CORS module introduced and explained. Anyways, I would still recommend this course to anyone who wants to start working with the Django Rest Framework but has no knowledge about the library.
By Robin Mckim on 11/26/2021
Excellent Course. Short sweet and to the point. It would be great to know which course you have to follow this one up with to build out admin queries and things! Thank you. Look forward to taking more of your courses! -Robin
By Anonymized User on 6/2/2020
The course was good, and gives a brisk intro to API with django rest FW, which it intended to do. But the purpose of this course feels slightly shallow, it could have dived a bit more on customizing APIs, coding manual views for API. At least something. Plus the course should come with a banner that one needs to be familiar with Django to go though this. The trainer was good, very candid, it was fun.
By Rodrigo Lucchesi on 1/22/2020
John Elder helped me with understanding the DJANGO Rest Framework in a quick and well-explained project and the whole content deserves five stars. With some ergonometric embedded passively with short videos and a well-produced framework to explain the code and the contents taken during the classes, for sure I will be updated to his new online courses. Thanks, John! I wish you a long life Elder man : )












