I believe all the existing answers contain the relevant information, but I would like to summarize.
The response object that is returned by requests get and post operations contains two useful attributes:
response.text - Contains str with the response text.response.content - Contains bytes with the raw response content.You should choose one or other of these attributes depending on the type of response you expect.
response.textresponse.content.When writing responses to file you need to use the open function with the appropriate file write mode.
"w" - plain write mode."wb" - binary write mode.# Request the HTML for this web page:
response = requests.get("https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31126596/saving-response-from-requests-to-file")
with open("response.txt", "w") as f:
f.write(response.text)
# Request the profile picture of the OP:
response = requests.get("https://i.stack.imgur.com/iysmF.jpg?s=32&g=1")
with open("response.jpg", "wb") as f:
f.write(response.content)
The original code should work by using wb and response.content:
import requests
files = {'f': ('1.pdf', open('1.pdf', 'rb'))}
response = requests.post("https://pdftables.com/api?&format=xlsx-single",files=files)
response.raise_for_status() # ensure we notice bad responses
file = open("out.xls", "wb")
file.write(response.content)
file.close()
But I would go further and use the with context manager for open.
import requests
with open('1.pdf', 'rb') as file:
files = {'f': ('1.pdf', file)}
response = requests.post("https://pdftables.com/api?&format=xlsx-single",files=files)
response.raise_for_status() # ensure we notice bad responses
with open("out.xls", "wb") as file:
file.write(response.content)