# Creating Python APIs - The Django REST framework. Adding the API to an existing app.[10/n]

Now that you have learned how to create a Python API using the Django REST Framework from scratch, let's now use it on an existing project.

We'll use a to-do app that is created using the Django web framework. You can find the link to the code [here](https://github.com/SauravJalui/To-Do). You can fork the code from there and use it to follow along with me.


![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1605806256241/OHHUQ_r70.png)

As you can see the app already had the folders **todo** and **todowoo** folders in it. We add the **api** folder by using the command 
```
python manage.py startapp api
``` 

also make sure you have the Django REST Framework by using the command 

```
pip3 install djangorestframework
```

Now that we've added certain new things, let's add it to the **settings.py** of our main project **todowoo**

Add **'api', 'restframework', ** as shown below.  (**todo** would already be present)

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1605806620980/gpUXtUXI6.png)

After we've done this, let's add the **api** urls in urls.py

We'll have to create new urls.py for that in the **api** folder. 

Once we're done creating the file, we can go back to adding the following path to the urls.py of our todowoo folder.

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1605807124027/241A8U37U.png)

What it basically means is that every url for api is to be fetched will end in "/api" and we will be including in the urls.py for the api folder.

We'll be adding the urls in the next article. Stay tuned for that.

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