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python requests library delete

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Library Delete

If you're working with APIs and want to delete data from a server, you can use Python Requests library. Requests is a simple, easy-to-use HTTP library that allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests using Python.

Using requests.delete()

To delete data from a server, you can use the requests.delete() method. This method sends an HTTP DELETE request to the specified URL.

Here's an example:


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/data/123'
response = requests.delete(url)

In this example, we're sending a DELETE request to the URL https://api.example.com/data/123. The requests.delete() method returns a Response object that contains the server's response to the request.

You can also add parameters to the DELETE request using the params parameter:


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/data'
params = {'id': '123'}
response = requests.delete(url, params=params)

This sends a DELETE request to the URL https://api.example.com/data, with the parameter id=123.

Passing headers and authentication

You can pass headers or authentication information to the requests.delete() method using the headers and auth parameters respectively.


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/data/123'
headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer my_access_token'}
response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)

In this example, we're passing an access token in the Authorization header.

Handling errors

If the server returns an error response (e.g. 404 Not Found), the requests.delete() method will raise a HTTPError exception. You can handle this exception using a try-except block:


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/data/123'
try:
    response = requests.delete(url)
    response.raise_for_status()
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as error:
    print(error.response.status_code, error.response.text)

This code sends a DELETE request to the URL https://api.example.com/data/123, and if the server returns an error response, it prints the status code and response text.

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