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Hello team, I created an always on task which runs a flask server. I would like to access this publically in a web app as an API. Looking at the logs, it seems that it is running locally on the server. How can I expose this for external use?

alwayson-log:

Oct 14 19:11:13  * Serving Flask app "flask_app" (lazy loading)
Oct 14 19:11:13  * Environment: production
Oct 14 19:11:13    WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
Oct 14 19:11:13    Use a production WSGI server instead.
Oct 14 19:11:13  * Debug mode: off
Oct 14 19:11:13  * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

This is not possible to expose flask app running like that on PythonAnywhere right now. Instead you should set up a flask web app using the Web page in your account.