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To send data using the HTTP POST method, you must include the data in the body of the HTTP POST message and specify the MIME type of the data with a Content-Type header. Below is an example of an HTTP POST request to send JSON data to the server. The size and data type for HTTP POST requests is not limited.
To make a POST request to an API endpoint, you need to send an HTTP POST request to the server and specify a Content-Type request header that specifies the data media type in the body of the POST request. The Content-Length header indicates the size of the data in the body of the POST request.
By design, the POST request method requests that a web server accept the data enclosed in the body of the request message, most likely for storing it. It is often used when uploading a file or when submitting a completed web form. In contrast, the HTTP GET request method retrieves information from the server.
If you really want to handle with HTTP using Python, I highly recommend Requests: HTTP for Humans. The POST quickstart adapted to your question is:
>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.post("http://bugs.python.org", data={'number': 12524, 'type': 'issue', 'action': 'show'})
>>> print(r.status_code, r.reason)
200 OK
>>> print(r.text[:300] + '...')
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>
Issue 12524: change httplib docs POST example - Python tracker
</title>
<link rel="shortcut i...
>>>
This is a solution without any external pip dependencies, but works only in Python 3+ (Python 2 won't work):
from urllib.parse import urlencode
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
url = 'https://httpbin.org/post' # Set destination URL here
post_fields = {'foo': 'bar'} # Set POST fields here
request = Request(url, urlencode(post_fields).encode())
json = urlopen(request).read().decode()
print(json)
Sample output:
{
"args": {},
"data": "",
"files": {},
"form": {
"foo": "bar"
},
"headers": {
"Accept-Encoding": "identity",
"Content-Length": "7",
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "Python-urllib/3.3"
},
"json": null,
"origin": "127.0.0.1",
"url": "https://httpbin.org/post"
}
You can't achieve POST requests using urllib (only for GET), instead try using requests module, e.g.:
Example 1.0:
import requests
base_url="www.server.com"
final_url="/{0}/friendly/{1}/url".format(base_url,any_value_here)
payload = {'number': 2, 'value': 1}
response = requests.post(final_url, data=payload)
print(response.text) #TEXT/HTML
print(response.status_code, response.reason) #HTTP
Example 1.2:
>>> import requests
>>> payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
>>> r = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", data=payload)
>>> print(r.text)
{
...
"form": {
"key2": "value2",
"key1": "value1"
},
...
}
Example 1.3:
>>> import json
>>> url = 'https://api.github.com/some/endpoint'
>>> payload = {'some': 'data'}
>>> r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload))
Use requests library to GET, POST, PUT or DELETE by hitting a REST API endpoint. Pass the rest api endpoint url in url, payload(dict) in data and header/metadata in headers
import requests, json
url = "bugs.python.org"
payload = {"number": 12524,
"type": "issue",
"action": "show"}
header = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"Accept": "text/plain"}
response_decoded_json = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=header)
response_json = response_decoded_json.json()
print(response_json)
Your data dictionary conteines names of form input fields, you just keep on right their values to find results. form view Header configures browser to retrieve type of data you declare. With requests library it's easy to send POST:
import requests
url = "https://bugs.python.org"
data = {'@number': 12524, '@type': 'issue', '@action': 'show'}
headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept":"text/plain"}
response = requests.post(url, data=data, headers=headers)
print(response.text)
More about Request object: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/api/
If you don't want to use a module you have to install like requests, and your use case is very basic, then you can use urllib2
urllib2.urlopen(url, body)
See the documentation for urllib2 here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html.
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