Comment by denniskane

For the purpose of solving serious general programming problems like these on the server, most developers would probably rather want to use something like google app engine because it hosts code as well as static files for free, up to certain quota limits. That way, they can just play around with one of the zillions of open source python libraries, and then integrate it into their projects. Making third-party API calls is honestly something that developers want to avoid if at all possible.