How to send POST request?
UrllibPython 2.xHttplibUrllib Problem Overview
I found this script online:
import httplib, urllib
params = urllib.urlencode({'number': 12524, 'type': 'issue', 'action': 'show'})
headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"Accept": "text/plain"}
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("bugs.python.org")
conn.request("POST", "", params, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print response.status, response.reason
302 Found
data = response.read()
data
'Redirecting to <a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue12524">http://bugs.python.org/issue12524</a>'
conn.close()
But I don't understand how to use it with PHP or what everything inside the params variable is or how to use it. Can I please have a little help with trying to get this to work?
Urllib Solutions
Solution 1 - Urllib
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...
>>>
Solution 2 - Urllib
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"
}
Solution 3 - Urllib
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))
Solution 4 - Urllib
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)
Solution 5 - Urllib
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/
Solution 6 - Urllib
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.
Solution 7 - Urllib
You can use the request library to make a post request. If you have a JSON string in the payload you can use json.dumps(payload) which is the expected form of payload.
import requests, json
url = "http://bugs.python.org/test"
payload={
"data1":1234,'data2':'test'
}
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(payload))
print(response.text , response.status_code)