from flask_restful import Resource, reqparse from app.lib.home.recents import get_recent_items parser = reqparse.RequestParser() parser.add_argument("limit", type=int, required=False, default=7, location="args") class RecentlyAdded(Resource): def get(self): cutoff = 14 args = parser.parse_args() limit = args["limit"] print(limit) return {"items": get_recent_items(cutoff)[:limit], "cutoff": cutoff}