title: Consume External XML API (with models, etc) with Flask
body: <p>I'm going to be building a webapp that will consume an XML-based API, and I'd like to use Flask to make it.</p>
  
  <p>Assuming I will be using SQLAlchemy for a database and something like FlaskWTF for forms, how can I get started using Flask in this way? I'm not really sure where to begin. I've heard the <code>requests</code> Python library a good way to go, but I don't know how to integrate that with db.model or other features of Flask, since I will be building an MVC-like app.</p>
  
  <p>I've read through this but it doesn't really help me since I won't be using a local database. <a href="https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/wiki/Large-app-how-to" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/wiki/Large-app-how-to</a></p>