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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests to Curl Conversion

If you are working with Python's requests module, you may need to convert your code to curl format for various reasons such as debugging, sharing with others or integrating with other tools. In this post, we will explore how to convert Python requests to curl command and vice versa.

Converting Python Requests to Curl

To convert a Python requests code to curl command, we can use the -v option in curl which shows the verbose output of the request. This output will include the request method, headers, data, and other details which can be used to construct a curl command.


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/v1/data'
headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'}
data = {'name': 'John', 'age': 30}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)
print(response.json())

To convert this Python code to a curl command, we can run the following command:


curl -v -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" -d "name=John&age=30" https://api.example.com/v1/data

The -H option is used to set the headers and the -d option is used to set the data (in this case, it is form data). We can also use the --data-raw option if we want to send the data as a raw string.

If the request method is not POST, we can use the appropriate method in curl such as -X GET, -X PUT, -X DELETE, etc.

Converting Curl to Python Requests

To convert a curl command to Python requests code, we can use the requests module and set the parameters accordingly. We need to extract the request method, headers, data, and URL from the curl command.

Let's take an example curl command:


curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" -d "name=John&age=30" https://api.example.com/v1/data

To convert this curl command to Python requests code, we can use the following code:


import requests

headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'}
data = {'name': 'John', 'age': 30}

response = requests.post('https://api.example.com/v1/data', headers=headers, data=data)
print(response.json())

We set the request method to POST, headers to a dictionary with the key 'Authorization' and value 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY', and data to a dictionary with the keys 'name' and 'age'.

If the request method is not POST, we can use the appropriate method in requests such as get(), put(), delete(), etc.

Conclusion

In this post, we learned how to convert Python requests code to curl command and vice versa. Both methods are useful in various situations such as debugging, sharing code, and integrating with other tools. By knowing these methods, we can work with requests and curl more efficiently.

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