How do I create a GET request with parameters?

Question

By default, it seems (for me) that every urlopen() with parameters seems to send a POST request. How can I set the call to send a GET instead?

import urllib
import urllib2

params = urllib.urlencode(dict({'hello': 'there'}))
urllib2.urlopen('http://httpbin.org/get', params)

urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 405: METHOD NOT ALLOWED

Answer 1

you could use, much the same way that post request:

import urllib
import urllib2

params = urllib.urlencode({'hello':'there', 'foo': 'bar'})
urllib2.urlopen('http://somesite.com/get?' + params)

The second argument should only be supplied when making POST requests, such as when sending a application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type, for example.

Answer 2

The HTTP request will be a POST instead of a GET when the data parameter is provided. Try urllib2.urlopen('http://httpbin.org/get?hello=there') instead.