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How do I send a POST request as a JSON?

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How do I send a JSON POST request in python?

To post a JSON to the server using Python Requests Library, call the requests. post() method and pass the target URL as the first parameter and the JSON data with the json= parameter. The json= parameter takes a dictionary and automatically converts it to a JSON string.

How do I send a POST request with JSON payload?

To send the JSON with payload to the REST API endpoint, you need to enclose the JSON data in the body of the HTTP request and indicate the data type of the request body with the "Content-Type: application/json" request header.

Does Post use JSON?

To post JSON data to the server, we need to use the HTTP POST request method and set the correct MIME type for the body. The correct MIME type for JSON is application/json. In this POST JSON example, the Content-Type: application/json request header specifies the media type for the resource in the body.

What is POST method in JSON?

post() method allows you to send asynchronous http POST request to submit and retrieve the data from the server without reloading whole page. Syntax: $.post(url,[data],[callback],[type]) Specify type parameter for the type of response data e.g. specify 'JSON' if server return JSON data.


If your server is expecting the POST request to be json, then you would need to add a header, and also serialize the data for your request...

Python 2.x

import json
import urllib2

data = {
        'ids': [12, 3, 4, 5, 6]
}

req = urllib2.Request('http://example.com/api/posts/create')
req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')

response = urllib2.urlopen(req, json.dumps(data))

Python 3.x

https://stackoverflow.com/a/26876308/496445


If you don't specify the header, it will be the default application/x-www-form-urlencoded type.


I recommend using the incredible requests module.

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/v0.10.7/user/quickstart/#custom-headers

url = 'https://api.github.com/some/endpoint'
payload = {'some': 'data'}
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}

response = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)

for python 3.4.2 I found the following will work:

import urllib.request
import json

body = {'ids': [12, 14, 50]}
myurl = "http://www.testmycode.com"

req = urllib.request.Request(myurl)
req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8')
jsondata = json.dumps(body)
jsondataasbytes = jsondata.encode('utf-8')   # needs to be bytes
req.add_header('Content-Length', len(jsondataasbytes))
response = urllib.request.urlopen(req, jsondataasbytes)

This works perfect for Python 3.5, if the URL contains Query String / Parameter value,

Request URL = https://bah2.com/ws/rest/v1/concept/
Parameter value = 21f6bb43-98a1-419d-8f0c-8133669e40ca

import requests

url = 'https://bahbah2.com/ws/rest/v1/concept/21f6bb43-98a1-419d-8f0c-8133669e40ca'
data = {"name": "Value"}
r = requests.post(url, auth=('username', 'password'), json=data)
print(r.status_code)

Here is an example of how to use urllib.request object from Python standard library.

import urllib.request
import json
from pprint import pprint

url = "https://app.close.com/hackwithus/3d63efa04a08a9e0/"

values = {
    "first_name": "Vlad",
    "last_name": "Bezden",
    "urls": [
        "https://twitter.com/VladBezden",
        "https://github.com/vlad-bezden",
    ],
}


headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Accept": "application/json",
}

data = json.dumps(values).encode("utf-8")
pprint(data)

try:
    req = urllib.request.Request(url, data, headers)
    with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as f:
        res = f.read()
    pprint(res.decode())
except Exception as e:
    pprint(e)