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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Post Encoding UTF-8

If you're working with Python requests and need to send a POST request with UTF-8 encoded data, there are a couple of ways to do it.

Method 1: Encode the Data as UTF-8

The first method is to encode the data as UTF-8 before sending it in the POST request. This can be done using the built-in encode() method in Python.


import requests

data = {'key': 'value with accents é'}
encoded_data = {'key': data['key'].encode('utf-8')}

response = requests.post('http://example.com/api', data=encoded_data)

In this example, we first create a dictionary with our data, which includes a key with a value that has accents in it. We then encode that value using the encode() method and store it in a new dictionary with the same key. Finally, we send the POST request with the encoded data using the data parameter.

Method 2: Set the Content-Type Header to UTF-8

The second method is to set the Content-Type header of the POST request to indicate that the data being sent is encoded as UTF-8. This can be done using the headers parameter in the requests.post() method.


import requests

data = {'key': 'value with accents é'}

headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'}

response = requests.post('http://example.com/api', data=data, headers=headers)

In this example, we create a dictionary with our data as before, but we don't need to encode it. Instead, we create a new dictionary with the Content-Type header set to indicate that the data is UTF-8 encoded. Finally, we send the POST request with both the data and headers parameters.

Conclusion

Both of these methods should allow you to send UTF-8 encoded data in a Python requests POST request. It's important to ensure that the server receiving the request is able to handle UTF-8 encoding as well.

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