Meet the Flask blog engine that integrates with your website using a straightforward API. Smooth, simple, and tasty content integration — that’s Butter.
So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the blog you build with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with Flask
Our Flask blog engine has a simple content API and drop-in SDKs that make the magic happen in minutes, not hours.
A truly zero-maintenance solution
With ButterCMS, you’ll never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance again.
You've got better things to do than build another blog
Drop our Flask blog engine into your app, and get back to more interesting problems.
ButterCMS is an API-based blog engine that integrates seamlessly with new and existing Flask apps. It's great for SEO, and provides a clean and modern user interface that your marketing team will love. You can deploy ButterCMS in minutes using our simple API client.
That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content.
See how Butter’s API enables you to launch a flexible blog with amazing SEO using your existing tech stack.
Best blog engine on the market
Butter's API slides right into our apps and lets us avoid having yet another WordPress site.
DANIEL, FOUNDER OF COLLECTIVE IDEA
Built to make content marketing easy
ButterCMS is the best Flask blog engine for a simple reason: Flask developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting blog templates, sidebars, related content features, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.
Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing Flask app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding Butter to your Flask app.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Flask app.
Seamless Flask components
Empower your marketing team to create a customized blog engine that aligns perfectly with your Flask components.
Components are the essential building blocks of any Flask app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.
Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Flask components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.
The best Flask blog engine for SEO
ButterCMS gives you absolute control over on-page SEO ranking factors. Key SEO variables are built into our default post template, giving your marketing team direct access to configure all of these settings, and more.
How to integrate ButterCMS into your Flask application
Integrating the Butter blog engine into your Flask app is dead simple. Here's a mini tutorial to get a feel for setting up your blog home and blog post pages.
For a full integration guide, check out our Official Guide.
Add the ButterCMS Python client to your Flask app:
pip install buttercms-python
Then test out some API calls in your application code:
from butter_cms import ButterCMS
client = ButterCMS('api_token_b22ab734')
// Get blog posts print client.posts.all({'page_size': 10, 'page': 1})
Blog API Response
{ "meta": { "count": 1, "next_page": null, "previous_page": null }, "data": [ { "url": "http://www.example.com/blog/this-is-a-blog-post", "created": "2015-06-12T13:59:32.441289Z", "published": "2015-06-12T00:00:00Z", "author": { "first_name": "API", "last_name": "Test", "email": "apitest@buttercms.com", "slug": "api-test", "bio": "This is my bio.", "title": "API", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/API", "facebook_url": "https://www.facebook.com/API", "pinterest_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/API", "instagram_url": "https://www.instagram.com/API", "twitter_handle": "buttercmsapi", "profile_image": "https://buttercms.com/api.png" }, "categories": [ { "name": "test category", "slug": "test-category" } ], "tags": [ { "name": "test tag", "slug": "test-tag" } ], "featured_image": null, "slug": "this-is-a-blog-post", "title": "This is a blog post", "body": "This is a blog post to test the API.", "summary": "This is a blog post to test the API.", "seo_title": "This is a blog post", "meta_description": "This is a blog post to test the API.", "status": "published" } ] }
Check out ourexample codefor building a Flask blog with Butter. Adding Butter with our Flask blueprint is as simple as this:
# In app.py from flask import Flask from buttercms.blog_blueprint import blog
app = Flask(__name__)
app.register_blueprint(blog, url_prefix='/blog')
That's it! The blog posts created in your Butter dashboard will immediately show up in your app.
ButterCMS is an API-based blog engine. We're a hosted service and we maintain all the infrastructure. We play nicely with an expanding list of leading technologies, including:
ButterCMS is an API-based, or "headless", CMS. We're a hosted service and we maintain all of the infrastructure. For more information on how we compare to a traditional CMS check out API-based CMS vs Traditional CMS.
What kind of database can I use?
No database required! We're a SaaS CMS or CaaS. You simply call our Content API from your app. We host and maintain all of the CMS infrastructure.
Do you host my templates?
Unlike CMS's you might be used to, we don't control or host any of your templates. The design of your app (HTML + CSS) lives in your application along side the rest of your app. Your application calls our Content API and we return your content in JSON format. You can then render this content in any way you'd like.
Can I import my content?
Yep. To import existing content from another platform, simply send us an email.
How do you compare to Wordpress?
In short, we offer all the same easy-to-use editing capabilities of Wordpress but are significantly easier for developers to setup and maintain. This means you spend less time working on your CMS and more time focusing on things important to your business.
Can I self host Butter?
No, we're a SaaS CMS or CaaS. You simply call our Content API from your app. We host and maintain all of the CMS infrastructure.
For more information on how we compare to a traditional CMS, check out Headless CMS vs Traditional CMS on the Butter blog. Do you have more questions? Read our FAQ below, or feel free to chat with us directly.
