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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Form

If you're working with HTTP requests in Python, the requests library is an incredibly useful tool. It allows you to easily send HTTP requests and handle the responses, which can be especially helpful when working with web forms.

Sending a Basic Form Request

To send a basic form request using Python requests, you first need to import the library:


import requests

Next, you'll need to specify the URL of the form you want to submit, along with any data you want to include. For example, let's say we have a form with two fields: "name" and "email". We could submit this form using requests like so:


url = 'http://example.com/submit-form'
data = {
    'name': 'John Doe',
    'email': '[email protected]'
}
response = requests.post(url, data=data)

In this example, we're using the post() method to send the form data to the specified URL. The data parameter contains a dictionary of key-value pairs, where each key corresponds to a form field and each value corresponds to the value entered by the user.

The response variable contains the server's response to our request. If the request was successful, you can access the response data using response.text:


print(response.text)

Submitting a Form with File Uploads

If your form includes file uploads, you can use requests to submit those files as well. To do this, you'll need to use the files parameter instead of data:


url = 'http://example.com/submit-form'
data = {
    'name': 'John Doe',
    'email': '[email protected]'
}
files = {
    'resume': open('resume.pdf', 'rb')
}
response = requests.post(url, data=data, files=files)

In this example, we're submitting a form that includes a file input field called "resume". We're opening the file using Python's built-in open() function and passing it to the files parameter along with the rest of the form data.

Dealing with CSRF Tokens

Some forms include CSRF tokens, which are used to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks. If your form includes a CSRF token, you'll need to include it in your request headers.


url = 'http://example.com/submit-form'
data = {
    'name': 'John Doe',
    'email': '[email protected]'
}
headers = {
    'X-CSRF-Token': 'your-csrf-token-here'
}
response = requests.post(url, data=data, headers=headers)

In this example, we're including a header called "X-CSRF-Token" with the value of our CSRF token. You'll need to replace "your-csrf-token-here" with the actual token value. You can usually find this value by inspecting the HTML source of the form page.

Conclusion

Python requests is a powerful library for working with HTTP requests, and it makes submitting web forms a breeze. Whether you're dealing with simple forms or more complex ones with file uploads and CSRF tokens, requests has you covered.

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