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RDKit is a widely used toolkit to work with molecules in different languages. Web APIs are interfaces that work with request-response message systems, commonly implemented in HTTP and accessible over the internet. Here we will take the RDKit’s function responsible for creating 2D molecular depictions and expose it over the internet, via HTTP, with a request-response system with the help of Flask and Python. We will be able to send molecules in SMILES format and our server will send us back the SVG representation of that molecule.