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python requests post yaml file

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests POST YAML File

If you want to send a YAML file using Python Requests, you can use the 'data' parameter of the 'post' method. Here is an example:


      import requests
      import yaml
      
      url = 'http://example.com/api'
      headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-yaml'}
      
      with open('data.yaml', 'r') as f:
          data = yaml.safe_load(f)
      
      response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)

In this example, we first import the necessary libraries: 'requests' and 'yaml'. We then define the URL we want to post to and the headers we want to send. The headers specify that we are sending YAML data.

We then open the YAML file using Python's built-in 'open' function and load the data using the 'safe_load' method of the 'yaml' library. This method ensures that the data is loaded securely and cannot execute arbitrary code.

Finally, we make the POST request using the 'post' method of the 'requests' library. We pass in the URL, headers, and data as parameters.

If you want to send a YAML file as a string rather than from a file, you can use the 'yaml.dump' method to convert the YAML data to a string:


      import requests
      import yaml
      
      url = 'http://example.com/api'
      headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-yaml'}
      
      data = {'name': 'John Smith', 'age': 30}
      yaml_data = yaml.dump(data)
      
      response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=yaml_data)

In this example, we define the YAML data as a Python dictionary and convert it to a string using the 'yaml.dump' method. We then make the POST request as before.

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