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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Requests Get Params List

When making a request to a web server, we often need to include certain parameters. These parameters are added to the URL as query strings and can be accessed by the server. In HTTP, we use the GET method to send a request with parameters. In this article, we will talk about how to get the list of GET parameters using Python's Requests library.

Using Requests library

The Requests library provides an easy way to make HTTP requests in Python. It also makes it easy to add parameters to the request. Let's say we want to send a GET request to a URL with some parameters. Here's how we can do it:


import requests

url = 'https://example.com/api'
params = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)

print(response.url)

In the above code, we first import the requests library. Then we define the URL and the parameters as a dictionary. We then pass the parameters to the get() method of the requests library. The response object obtained from the request has a url property which contains the URL with the query strings. We can print this URL to see the list of parameters that were sent.

Using urlparse module

The urlparse module in Python provides a way to parse URLs and extract their components. We can use this module to get the list of query parameters from a URL. Here's how:


from urllib.parse import urlparse

url = 'https://example.com/api?key1=value1&key2=value2'
parsed_url = urlparse(url)
params = dict([p.split('=') for p in parsed_url.query.split('&')])

print(params)

In the above code, we first import the urlparse module. We then define the URL with the query strings. We use the urlparse() function to parse the URL and get its components. We then split the query string by '&' to get a list of key-value pairs. We then split each pair by '=' to get the key and value separately. We create a dictionary from these pairs and print it to see the list of parameters.

Conclusion

In this article, we talked about how to get the list of GET parameters using Python's Requests library and urlparse module. Both methods are easy to use and can be used depending on our requirements.

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