How to use Python to execute a cURL command?

Question

For sake of simplicity, maybe you should consider using the Requests library.

An example with json response content would be something like:

import requests
r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json')
r.json()

If you look for further information, in the Quickstart section, they have lots of working examples.

EDIT:

For your specific curl translation:

import requests
url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search?key=mykeyhere'
payload = open("request.json")
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept-Charset': 'UTF-8'}
r = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)

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Example:

curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data '{"text":"Hello, World!"}' https://hooks.slack.com/services/asdfasdfasdf

Becomes this in Python,

import requests

headers = {
    'Content-type': 'application/json',
}

data = '{"text":"Hello, World!"}'

response = requests.post('https://hooks.slack.com/services/asdfasdfasdf', headers=headers, data=data)

import requests
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search?key=mykeyhere"
data = requests.get(url).json

maybe?

if you are trying to send a file

files = {'request_file': open('request.json', 'rb')}
r = requests.post(url, files=files)
print r.text, print r.json

ahh thanks @LukasGraf now i better understand what his original code is doing

import requests,json
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search?key=mykeyhere"
my_json_data = json.load(open("request.json"))
req = requests.post(url,data=my_json_data)
print req.text
print 
print req.json # maybe? 

curl -d @request.json --header "Content-Type: application/json" https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search?key=mykeyhere

its python implementation be like

import requests

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

params = (
    ('key', 'mykeyhere'),
)

data = open('request.json')
response = requests.post('https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search', headers=headers, params=params, data=data)

#NB. Original query string below. It seems impossible to parse and
#reproduce query strings 100% accurately so the one below is given
#in case the reproduced version is not "correct".
# response = requests.post('https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search?key=mykeyhere', headers=headers, data=data)

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