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python requests post dictionary

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Post Dictionary

As a programmer, I have come across a scenario where I needed to send POST requests to a server with a dictionary as the payload. In Python, the requests library is commonly used to send HTTP requests. In this answer, I will explain how to send a POST request with a dictionary payload using the requests library.

Using the Requests Library

The first step is to import the requests library:


import requests

Next, we need to define our dictionary payload:


payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}

Now, we can use the requests.post() method to send our POST request:


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

The url parameter is the URL to which we want to send our POST request. The data parameter is the dictionary payload that we want to send.

If we want to send JSON data instead of a dictionary, we can use the json parameter:


import json

payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
json_payload = json.dumps(payload)

response = requests.post(url, json=json_payload)

The json.dumps() method converts our dictionary payload to a JSON string, which we can then send using the json parameter.

Conclusion

Sending a POST request with a dictionary payload using the requests library is very easy. We simply define our payload as a dictionary, and pass it to the data parameter when sending our POST request. If we want to send JSON data instead of a dictionary, we can use the json parameter.

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