How to prevent python requests from percent encoding my URLs?

Question

I'm trying to GET an URL of the following format using requests.get() in python:

http://api.example.com/export/?format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel

#!/usr/local/bin/python  import requests  print(requests.__versiom__) url = 'http://api.example.com/export/' payload = {'format': 'json', 'key': 'site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'} r = requests.get(url, params=payload) print(r.url) 

However, the URL gets percent encoded and I don't get the expected response.

2.2.1 http://api.example.com/export/?key=site%3Adummy%2Btype%3Aexample%2Bgroup%3Awheel&format=json 

This works if I pass the URL directly:

url = http://api.example.com/export/?format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel r = requests.get(url) 

Is there some way to pass the the parameters in their original form - without percent encoding?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It is not good solution but you can use directly string:

r = requests.get(url, params='format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel') 

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BTW:

Code which convert payload to this string

payload = {     'format': 'json',      'key': 'site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel' }  payload_str = "&".join("%s=%s" % (k,v) for k,v in payload.items()) # 'format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'  r = requests.get(url, params=payload_str) 

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EDIT (2020):

You can also use urllib.parse.urlencode(...) with parameter safe=':+' to create string without converting chars :+ .

As I know requests also use urllib.parse.urlencode(...) for this but without safe=.

import requests import urllib.parse  payload = {     'format': 'json',      'key': 'site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel' }  payload_str = urllib.parse.urlencode(payload, safe=':+') # 'format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'  url = 'https://httpbin.org/get'  r = requests.get(url, params=payload_str)  print(r.text) 

I used page https://httpbin.org/get to test it.