Simple URL GET/POST function in Python

Question

I can't seem to Google it, but I want a function that does this:

Accept 3 arguments (or more, whatever):

• URL
• a dictionary of params
• POST or GET

Return me the results, and the response code.

Is there a snippet that does this?

Answer 1

requests

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/

Here's a few common ways to use it:

import requests url = 'https://...' payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}  # GET r = requests.get(url)  # GET with params in URL r = requests.get(url, params=payload)  # POST with form-encoded data r = requests.post(url, data=payload)  # POST with JSON  import json r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload))  # Response, status etc r.text r.status_code 

httplib2

https://github.com/jcgregorio/httplib2

>>> from httplib2 import Http >>> from urllib import urlencode >>> h = Http() >>> data = dict(name="Joe", comment="A test comment") >>> resp, content = h.request("http://bitworking.org/news/223/Meet-Ares", "POST", urlencode(data)) >>> resp {'status': '200', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'vary': 'Accept-Encoding,User-Agent',  'server': 'Apache', 'connection': 'close', 'date': 'Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:29:52 GMT',   'content-type': 'text/html'} 

Answer 2

Even easier: via the requests module.

import requests get_response = requests.get(url='http://google.com') post_data = {'username':'joeb', 'password':'foobar'} # POST some form-encoded data: post_response = requests.post(url='http://httpbin.org/post', data=post_data) 

To send data that is not form-encoded, send it serialised as a string (example taken from the documentation):

import json post_response = requests.post(url='http://httpbin.org/post', data=json.dumps(post_data)) # If using requests v2.4.2 or later, pass the dict via the json parameter and it will be encoded directly: post_response = requests.post(url='http://httpbin.org/post', json=post_data)