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enjoi
enjoi

Reputation: 284

Requests with headers and data

I'm trying to convert the following cURL command into a Request in Python.

curl -H 'customheader: value' -H 'customheader2: value' --data "Username=user&UserPassword=pass" https://thisismyurl

From what I understand, one can GET headers and POST data. So how do I do both like a cURL?

This is what I'm trying:

url = 'myurl'
headers = {'customheader': 'value', 'customheader2': 'value'}
data = 'Username=user&UserPassword=pass'

requests.get(url, headers=headers, data=data)

Which returns: HTTPError: HTTP 405: Method Not Allowed

If I use post: MissingArgumentError: HTTP 400: Bad Request

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9688

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1121216

When you use the --data command line argument, curl switches to a POST request. Do the same in Python:

requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)

From the curl manual:

-d, --data <data>
(HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in the same way that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML form and presses the submit button. HTTP server, in the same way that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML form and presses the submit button. This will cause curl to pass the data to the server using the content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

You may want to manually set the Content-Type header accordingly, or use a dictionary for the data parameter (and have requests encode those to the right format for you; the Content-Type header is set for you as well):

url = 'myurl'
headers = {'customheader': 'value', 'customheader2': 'value'}
data = {'Username': 'user', 'UserPassword': 'pass'}

requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)

Upvotes: 11

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