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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)

References:

• Python HTTP GET POST with examples

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