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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Body Post

If you are working with APIs, you may need to send data to a server using HTTP POST request. Python has an excellent package called 'Requests' for handling HTTP requests. The 'Requests' package allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests using Python.

Using 'Requests' package for POST request

To send a POST request using 'Requests' package, you need to import it in your Python script. You can install it using pip command:


pip install requests

After installing the 'Requests' package, you can import it in your script:


import requests

Sending data in the body of a POST request

To send data in the body of a POST request, you can use the 'data' parameter of the 'requests.post()' method. This parameter takes a dictionary of key-value pairs as input. The keys represent the names of the form fields and the values represent the values of the form fields.


import requests

url = 'http://example.com/api/user'
data = {'name': 'John', 'age': 25}

response = requests.post(url, data=data)
print(response.text)

In this example, we are sending a POST request to 'http://example.com/api/user' with two form fields: 'name' and 'age'. The response is printed to the console using the 'response.text' attribute.

Sending JSON data in the body of a POST request

To send JSON data in the body of a POST request, you can use the 'json' parameter of the 'requests.post()' method. This parameter takes a dictionary or a list as input. If you pass a dictionary, it will be converted to JSON format automatically.


import requests

url = 'http://example.com/api/user'
data = {'name': 'John', 'age': 25}

response = requests.post(url, json=data)
print(response.text)

In this example, we are sending a POST request to 'http://example.com/api/user' with JSON data containing two keys: 'name' and 'age'. The response is printed to the console using the 'response.text' attribute.

Conclusion

Sending a POST request with 'Requests' package is very easy and convenient. You just need to provide the URL, data or JSON and the package will take care of the rest. It's a great tool for working with APIs that require POST requests.

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