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python requests multiple headers example

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Multiple Headers Example

If you are working with APIs or web scraping in Python, it is important to know how to add multiple headers to your requests. Headers are a way for the client to provide additional information to the server about the request being made. In Python, you can use the Requests library to make HTTP requests and add headers to those requests.

Let's say you want to make a GET request to an API endpoint that requires both an API key and a content-type header:


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/some/endpoint'
headers = {
    'API-Key': 'your-api-key',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

In this example, we create a dictionary called headers that contains two key-value pairs. The first key is 'API-Key' and its value is the actual API key provided by the API provider. The second key is 'Content-Type' and its value is set to 'application/json' because we expect the API to return JSON data.

Then, we pass the headers dictionary as an argument to the get() method of the requests library along with the url we want to make the request to. The response object that is returned can then be used to access the data returned by the API.

Another way to add headers to a request in Python is by using the request.headers property. Here's an example:


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/some/endpoint'

response = requests.get(url)
response.headers.update({
    'API-Key': 'your-api-key',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
})

In this example, we first make the request without any headers, and then update the headers property of the response object to add the required headers. This approach can be useful when you need to add headers to a response object that has already been created.

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