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In this chapter, we will understand how to use the POST method using requests library and also pass parameters to the URL.
Using POST
For PUT request, the Requests library has requests.post() method, the example of it is shown below −
import requests
myurl = ''https://postman-echo.com/post''
myparams = {''name'': ''ABC'', ''email'':''[email protected]''}
res = requests.post(myurl, data=myparams)
print(res.text)
Output
E:prequests>python makeRequest.py
{"args":{},"data":"","files":{},"form":{"name":"ABC","email":"[email protected]"},
"headers":{"x-forwarded-proto":"https","host":"postman-echo.com","content-
length":"30","accept":"*/*","accept-encoding":"gzip,deflate","content-
type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded","user-agent":"python-
requests/2.22.0","x-forwarded-
port":"443"},"json":{"name":"ABC","email":"[email protected]"},
"url":"https://postman-echo.com/post"}
In the example shown above, you can pass the form data as key-value pair to the data param inside requests.post(). We will also see how to work with PUT, PATCH and DELETE in requests module.
Using PUT
For PUT request, the Requests library has requests.put() method, the example of it is shown below.
import requests
myurl = ''https://postman-echo.com/put''
myparams = {''name'': ''ABC'', ''email'':''[email protected]''}
res = requests.put(myurl, data=myparams)
print(res.text)
Output
E:prequests>python makeRequest.py
{"args":{},"data":"","files":{},"form":{"name":"ABC","email":"[email protected]"},
"headers":{"x-forwarded-proto":"https","host":"postman-echo.com","content-
length":
"30","accept":"*/*","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate","content-
type":"applicatio
n/x-www-form-urlencoded","user-agent":"python-requests/2.22.0","x-forwarded-
port
":"443"},"json":{"name":"ABC","email":"[email protected]"},
"url":"https://postman-echo.com/put"}
Using PATCH
For the PATCH request, the Requests library has requests.patch() method, the example of it is shown below.
import requests myurl = https://postman-echo.com/patch'' res = requests.patch(myurl, data="testing patch") print(res.text)
Output
E:prequests>python makeRequest.py
{"args":{},"data":{},"files":{},"form":{},"headers":{"x-forwarded-
proto":"https"
,"host":"postman-echo.com","content-length":"13","accept":"*/*","accept-
encoding
":"gzip, deflate","user-agent":"python-requests/2.22.0","x-forwarded-
port":"443"
},"json":null,"url":"https://postman-echo.com/patch"}
Using DELETE
For the DELETE request, the Requests library has requests.delete() method, the example of it is shown below.
import requests myurl = ''https://postman-echo.com/delete'' res = requests.delete(myurl, data="testing delete") print(res.text)
Output
E:prequests>python makeRequest.py
{"args":{},"data":{},"files":{},"form":{},"headers":{"x-forwarded-
proto":"https"
,"host":"postman-echo.com","content-length":"14","accept":"*/*","accept-
encoding
":"gzip, deflate","user-agent":"python-requests/2.22.0","x-forwarded-
port":"443"
},"json":null,"url":"https://postman-echo.com/delete"}
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