How to send POST request

Question

I found this script online   import httplib  urllib params   urllib urlencode   number   12524   type    issue    action    show    headers     Content-type    application x-www-form-urlencoded                Accept    text plain   conn   httplib HTTPConnection  bugs python org   conn request  POST       params  headers  response   conn getresponse   print response status  response reason 302 Found data   response read   data  Redirecting to  lt a href  http   bugs python org issue12524  gt http   bugs python org issue12524 lt  a gt   conn close     But I don t understand how to use it with PHP or what everything inside the params variable is or how to use it  Can I please have a little help with trying to get this to work

User · Answer

If you need your script to be portable and you would rather not have any 3rd party dependencies, this is how you send POST request purely in Python 3.

from urllib.parse import urlencode
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen

url = 'https://httpbin.org/post' # Set destination URL here
post_fields = {'foo': 'bar'}     # Set POST fields here

request = Request(url, urlencode(post_fields).encode())
json = urlopen(request).read().decode()
print(json)

Sample output:

{
  "args": {}, 
  "data": "", 
  "files": {}, 
  "form": {
    "foo": "bar"
  }, 
  "headers": {
    "Accept-Encoding": "identity", 
    "Content-Length": "7", 
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org", 
    "User-Agent": "Python-urllib/3.3"
  }, 
  "json": null, 
  "origin": "127.0.0.1", 
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/post"
}

User · Answer

If you don t want to use a module you have to install like requests  and your use case is very basic  then you can use urllib2  urllib2 urlopen url  body    See the documentation for urllib2 here  https   docs python org 2 library urllib2 html

User · Answer

If you really want to handle with HTTP using Python  I highly recommend Requests  HTTP for Humans  The POST quickstart adapted to your question is    gt  gt  gt  import requests  gt  gt  gt  r   requests post  http   bugs python org   data   number   12524   type    issue    action    show     gt  gt  gt  print r status code  r reason  200 OK  gt  gt  gt  print r text  300             lt  DOCTYPE html PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD XHTML 1 0 Transitional  EN   http   www w3 org TR xhtml1 DTD xhtml1-transitional dtd  gt   lt html xmlns  http   www w3 org 1999 xhtml  xml lang  en  lang  en  gt   lt head gt   lt title gt  Issue 12524  change httplib docs POST example - Python tracker   lt  title gt   lt link rel  shortcut i     gt  gt  gt

User · Answer

Use requests library to GET  POST  PUT or DELETE by hitting a REST API endpoint  Pass the rest api endpoint url in url  payload dict  in data and header metadata in headers  import requests  json  url    bugs python org   payload     number   12524               type    issue                action    show    header     Content-type    application x-www-form-urlencoded              Accept    text plain     response decoded json   requests post url  data payload  headers header  response json   response decoded json json    print response json

User · Answer

Your data dictionary conteines names of form input fields  you just keep on right their values to find results   form view Header configures browser to retrieve type of data you declare  With requests library it s easy to send POST   import requests  url    https   bugs python org  data      number   12524    type    issue     action    show   headers     Content-type    application x-www-form-urlencoded    Accept   text plain   response   requests post url  data data  headers headers   print response text    More about Request object  https   requests readthedocs io en master api

User · Answer

You can t achieve POST requests using urllib  only for GET   instead try using requests module  e g    Example 1 0   import requests  base url  www server com  final url    0  friendly  1  url  format base url any value here   payload     number   2   value   1  response   requests post final url  data payload   print response text   TEXT HTML print response status code  response reason   HTTP     Example 1 2    gt  gt  gt  import requests   gt  gt  gt  payload     key1    value1    key2    value2     gt  gt  gt  r   requests post  http   httpbin org post   data payload   gt  gt  gt  print r text             form          key2    value2        key1    value1                 Example 1 3    gt  gt  gt  import json   gt  gt  gt  url    https   api github com some endpoint   gt  gt  gt  payload     some    data     gt  gt  gt  r   requests post url  data json dumps payload

[python] How to send POST request?

Examples related to python

Examples related to urllib

Examples related to httplib