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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Post Gzip

If you are working with data in Python and want to compress it before sending it over a network, you can use the gzip library to compress the data and the requests library to send it. This can be useful when working with large datasets or when you want to reduce the bandwidth usage of your application.

Using gzip with requests.post()

To use gzip with requests.post(), you will need to import the gzip library and use it to compress your data before sending it with requests. Here is an example:


import requests
import gzip

data = "This is some data that we want to compress and send over the network."

# Compress the data using gzip
compressed_data = gzip.compress(data.encode('utf-8'))

# Set up the headers to indicate that the data is compressed
headers = {
    'Content-Encoding': 'gzip',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'
}

# Send the compressed data with requests.post()
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=compressed_data)

In this example, we first import the requests and gzip libraries. We then create some sample data to compress, and use the gzip library to compress the data. We set up the headers for the request, including the Content-Encoding header to indicate that the data is compressed using gzip. Finally, we use requests.post() to send the compressed data to a URL.

Using requests.post() with json.dumps()

If you are working with JSON data, you can use json.dumps() to convert your data to a JSON string and then send it with requests.post(). Here is an example:


import requests
import json
import gzip

data = {'key': 'value'}

# Convert the data to JSON and compress it using gzip
compressed_data = gzip.compress(json.dumps(data).encode('utf-8'))

# Set up the headers to indicate that the data is compressed and in JSON format
headers = {
    'Content-Encoding': 'gzip',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'
}

# Send the compressed JSON data with requests.post()
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=compressed_data)

In this example, we first import the requests, json, and gzip libraries. We then create some JSON data and use json.dumps() to convert the data to a JSON string. We compress the JSON string using gzip, and set up the headers for the request. Finally, we use requests.post() to send the compressed JSON data to a URL.

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