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+import flask
+
+app = flask.Flask(__name__)
+app.config["DEBUG"] = True
+
+
+@app.route('/', methods=['GET'])
+def home():
+    return "<h1>Distant Reading Archive</h1><p>This site is a prototype API for distant reading of science fiction novels.</p>"
+
+app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=5000, debug=True)
+