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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Post Method

If you need to send data to a server, the POST method is used. POST method is used to submit data to the server to take action or store it for later use. Python provides a module called 'requests' that allows sending HTTP requests using Python.

To use the post method in Python, you need to follow these steps:

  1. Import the requests module.
  2. Create a dictionary of data that you want to send.
  3. Send a POST request to the server with the data and the URL.
  4. Get the response from the server.

Example Code:


import requests

# URL of the API endpoint
url = "https://example.com/api"

# Data to be sent to the server
data = {'name': 'Raju', 'age': 25}

# Send a POST request to the server
response = requests.post(url, data=data)

# Get the response from the server
print(response.text)

In the example code above, we have imported the requests module and created a dictionary of data that we want to send. Then we have sent a POST request to the server with the data and the URL using the post method of the requests module. Finally, we have received the response from the server and printed it.

Another way to send data using the POST method is by passing it as JSON data. To do this, you need to use the json parameter instead of the data parameter in the requests.post() method.

Example Code:


import requests
import json

# URL of the API endpoint
url = "https://example.com/api"

# Data to be sent to the server in JSON format
data = {'name': 'Raju', 'age': 25}
json_data = json.dumps(data)

# Send a POST request to the server with JSON data
response = requests.post(url, json=json_data)

# Get the response from the server
print(response.text)

In the above example code, we are first converting the data dictionary to a JSON string using the json.dumps() method. Then we are sending a POST request to the server with the JSON data using the json parameter instead of the data parameter. Finally, we are receiving the response from the server and printing it.

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