how to make post request in python

Question

Here is the curl command:

curl -H "X-API-TOKEN: <API-TOKEN>" 'http://foo.com/foo/bar' --data # 

let me explain what goes into data

POST /foo/bar
Input (request JSON body)

Name    Type    
title   string  
body    string

So, based on this.. I figured:

curl -H "X-API-TOKEN: " 'http://foo.com/foo/bar' --data '{"title":"foobar","body": "This body has both "double" and 'single' quotes"}'

Unfortunately, I am not able to figure that out as well (like curl from cli) Though I would like to use python to send this request. How do i do this?

Answer 1

With the standard Python httplib and urllib libraries you can do

import httplib, urllib

headers = {'X-API-TOKEN': 'your_token_here'}
payload = "'title'='value1'&'name'='value2'"

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("heise.de")
conn.request("POST", "", payload, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()

print response

or if you want to use the nice HTTP library called "Requests".

import requests

headers = {'X-API-TOKEN': 'your_token_here'}
payload = {'title': 'value1', 'name': 'value2'}

r = requests.post("http://foo.com/foo/bar", data=payload, headers=headers)