I know, that's the "answer" nobody wants. But if something's worth doing, it's worth doing right, right?
This seeming like a good idea probably stems from a fairly wide misconception that shell commands such as curl
are anything other than programs themselves.
So what you're asking is "how do I run this other program, from within my program, just to make a measly little web request?". That's crazy, there's got to be a better way right?
Uxio's answer works, sure. But it hardly looks very Pythonic, does it? That's a lot of work just for one little request. Python's supposed to be about flying! Anyone writing that is probably wishing they just call
'd curl
!
it works, but is there a better way?
Things shouldn’t be this way. Not in Python.
Let's GET this page:
import requests
res = requests.get('https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26000336')
That's it, really! You then have the raw res.text
, or res.json()
output, the res.headers
, etc.
You can see the docs (linked above) for details of setting all the options, since I imagine OP has moved on by now, and you - the reader now - likely need different ones.
But, for example, it's as simple as:
url = 'http://example.tld'
payload = { 'key' : 'val' }
headers = {}
res = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)
You can even use a nice Python dict to supply the query string in a GET request with params={}
.
Simple and elegant. Keep calm, and fly on.