====== Flask SQLAlchemy ====== For using it with MySQL: $ apt-get install python-dev libmysqlclient-dev $ pip install mysql-python Then the connection string will be: app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/db_name' It seems that you also can install the pymysql package, then: 'mysql+pymysql://username:password@localhost/db_name'