The HTTP protocol allows you to send and receive information through the web including webpages, images, and other web resources.
Request in Python
- Requests is a python Library that allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests easily.
import requests
Post Requests
- POST is the most common Request method used to send data mostly through 'form' to the server for creating/updating in the server.
- POST request sends the data in a request body.
url_post='http://httpbin.org/post'
- To make a POST request we use the post() function.
- The variable payload is passed to the parameter data.
r_post=requests.post(url_post,data=payload)
Make a Request
r = requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post') print(r.text)
{ "args": {}, "data": "", "files": {}, "form": {}, "headers": { "Accept": "*/*", "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", "Connection": "close", "Content-Length": "0", "Host": "httpbin.org", "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.18.1" }, "json": null, "origin": "185.136.79.217", "url": "http://httpbin.org/post" }
Passing Parameters
payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'} r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get', params=payload) print(r.text)
{ "args": { "key1": "value1", "key2": "value2" }, "headers": { "Accept": "*/*", "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", "Connection": "close", "Host": "httpbin.org", "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.18.1" }, "origin": "185.136.79.217", "url": "http://httpbin.org/get?key1=value1&key2=value2" }