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Aya Bouchiha
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Sending GET, POST, PUT, DELETE Requests In Python

Hello, I'm Aya Bouchiha, today, we'll talk about sending requests in python using the requests module

installation

pip install requests 
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What's GET request

GET: is a request used for getting or retrieving data or information from a specified server.

Sending GET requests in Python using requests

import requests url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1' response = requests.get(url) # <Response [200]> print(response) # 200 print(response.status_code) # { # "userId": 1, # "id": 1, # "title": "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit", # "body": "quia et suscipit\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto" #} print(response.text) # https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1 print(response.url) # application\json; charset=utf-8 print(response.headers['Content-Type']) # b'{\n "userId": 1,\n "id": 1,\n "title": "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit",\n "body": "quia et suscipit\\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto"\n}' print(response.content) # {'userId': 1, 'id': 1, 'title': 'sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit', 'body': 'quia et suscipit\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto'} print(response.json()) # <class 'dict'> print(type(response.json())) # for more information # print(dir(response)) 
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What's POST request

POST: is a request that is used for sending information or data to a specific server.

Sending POST requests in Python using requests

import requests import json url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts' data = { 'title': 'buy new mouse','body': 'I need to buy a new mouse !','userId': 5,} headers = {'content-type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'} response = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers) # 201 print(response.status_code) # True print(response.ok) # b'{\n "title": "buy new mouse",\n "body": "I need to buy a new mouse !",\n "userId": 5,\n "id": 101\n}' print(response.content) # { # "title": "buy new mouse", # "body": "I need to buy a new mouse !", # "userId": 5, # "id": 101 # } print(response.text) # <class 'str'> print(type(response.text)) # https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts print(response.url) # application/json; charset=utf-8 print(response.headers['Content-Type']) # utf-8 print(response.encoding) 
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What's the PUT request

PUT: is a request used for creating or updating a resource in a specific server.

Sending PUT requests in Python using requests

import requests import json url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1' data = {'id':1, 'userId':2, 'title':'drink water', 'body':'drinking water is important'} headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json; charset=UTF-8'} response = requests.put(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers) # 200 print(response.status_code) # True print(response.ok) # b'{\n "id": 1,\n "userId": 2,\n "title": "drink water",\n "body": "drinking water is important"\n}' print(response.content) # { # "id": 1, # "userId": 2, # "title": "drink water", # "body": "drinking water is important" # } print(response.text) # <class 'str'> print(type(response.text)) # https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts print(response.url) # application/json; charset=utf-8 print(response.headers['Content-Type']) # utf-8 print(response.encoding) 
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What's a delete request

DELETE: is a request used to delete a specific resource in a server.

Sending a DELETE request in python

import requests import json url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1' headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'} response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers) print(response.status_code) # 200  print(response.ok) # True  print(type(response.text)) # <class 'str'>  print(response.url) # https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1  print(response.headers['Content-Type']) # application/json; charset=utf-8  print(response.encoding) # utf-8 
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Have a good day

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