How to Create a Horoscope API with Beautiful Soup and Flask

Have you ever read your horoscope in the newspaper or seen it on television? Well, I'm not sure about other countries, but in my country of India, people still read their horoscopes.

And this is where I got the idea for this tutorial. It might sound a bit old-fashioned, but the main focus here is not on the horoscope itself – it's just the vehicle for our learning.

In this lab, we're going to scrape a website called Horoscope.com using Beautiful Soup and then create our own API using Flask. This API, if deployed on a public server, can then be used by other developers who would wish to create a website to show their horoscope or an app for the same.