In today’s post, we will write code for performing Python HTTP GET and POST with examples
We shall create a basic HTTP request using a Python instance.
Today in this article, we will cover below aspects,
Getting started
Please install the ‘requests’ library.
pip install requests
HTTP GET Request
Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests and it is powered by urllib3. with added features like Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling features.
GET Example
import requests
r = requests.get('https://www.thecodebuzz.com/freebooks)
GET Example using Headers
If using Authentication headers then please use the same using headers and request object.
Example
headers = { 'Accept' : 'application/json',
'Content-Type' : 'application/json'}
response = requests.get(url,headers = headers )
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)
HTTP POST Request
HTTP Post method allows sending the Message Body as per HTTP specification.
Similarly, a message body can be sent for requests like PUT or PATCH, etc.
Python POST Example
Below is the sample POST request where we are sending the message body using json_data which is JSON format data.
headers = {'Accept' : 'application/json',
'Content-Type' : 'application/json'}
response = requests.post(url = url,json = json_data)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)
Python – Authentication Headers in Request
JSON Web Token( JWT) is an open standard used for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object.
JSON Web Tokens are very useful for various scenarios like authorization purposes or Information exchange using digitally signed key-value pairs.
Please define HttpHeaders to be used for JWT bearer token as below,
Example
eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9. eyJleHAiOjE1OTU0NzE5MjMsImlzcyI6Imh0dHBzOi8vbG9jYWxob3N0OjQ0MzQxIiwiYXVkIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9sb2NhbGhvc3Q6NDQzNDEifQ. FdHX7Ycs_Z5zwAQkRD9iyVRPsgS42QqC8yQ9EKYnVC4
The client should send an Authorization header with the Bearer schema as below.
Authorization: Bearer <token>
Let’s define HttpHeaders to be used for JWT bearer token as below,
headers = {'Authorization' :"Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.
eyJleHAiOjE1OTU0NzE5MjMsImlzcyI6Imh0dHBzOi8vbG9jYWxob3N0OjQ0MzQxIiwiYXVkIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9sb2NhbGhvc3Q6NDQzNDEifQ.
FdHX7Ycs_Z5zwAQkRD9iyVRPsgS42QqC8yQ9EKYnVC4",
'Accept' : 'application/json',
'Content-Type' : 'application/json'}
response = requests.post(url = url,json = json_data)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)
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