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python requests post authorization bearer

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Post Authorization Bearer

If you want to make an HTTP POST request with authorization bearer token in Python, then you can use the requests module. This is a very popular Python library that allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests with various authentication methods.

Example

Let's take a look at an example where we will be sending a POST request with an authorization bearer token to a sample API endpoint.


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/v1/foo/bar'
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE'
}
data = {
    'param1': 'value1',
    'param2': 'value2'
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)

print(response.json())

In this example, we are sending a POST request to the URL specified in the url variable. We are passing the authorization bearer token in the headers dictionary, where the key is 'Authorization' and the value is 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE'. The data we want to send in the request is specified in the data dictionary. Finally, we are sending the request using the requests.post() method and storing the response in the response variable.

Multiple Ways to Pass Authorization Bearer Token

There are multiple ways to pass the authorization bearer token in a POST request using Python requests. Some of them are:

  • Passing the authorization bearer token in a headers dictionary as shown in the example above.
  • Using the auth parameter of the requests.post() method. For example:

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBearerAuth

url = 'https://api.example.com/v1/foo/bar'
data = {
    'param1': 'value1',
    'param2': 'value2'
}

response = requests.post(url, data=data, auth=HTTPBearerAuth('YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE'))

print(response.json())
  • Passing the authorization bearer token as a query parameter in the URL. For example:

import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/v1/foo/bar?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE'
data = {
    'param1': 'value1',
    'param2': 'value2'
}

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

print(response.json())
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