Send POST Requests with Python and Requests Module: A Step-by-Step Guide

31 Mar, 2023

When working with web applications or APIs, you may need to send HTTP requests to submit form data or retrieve data from a remote server. Python provides several libraries for working with HTTP requests, but one of the most popular and user-friendly is the requests module.

In this tutorial, we'll walk through how to send a POST request with Python and the requests module, using an example of submitting form data to a remote server.

Setting up the Example

For this tutorial, we'll use the following example:

• We have an encoded form submission string that we want to send as a POST request to a URL
• The URL we'll use is "http://requestfrom.me"
• We'll assume that the form submission string is already encoded in the proper format for submitting form data, and we just need to send it as a POST request.

Sending the POST Request

To send a POST request with Python and the requests module, we'll need to:

1. Import the requests module
2. Define the URL and any necessary headers for the request
3. Define the data to be sent in the request body
4. Send the POST request using the requests.post() method

Here's what the code looks like:

import requests
from urllib.parse import parse_qs

url = 'http://mazhar.me'
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
data_str = 'hppshac%5B%5D=map&hppshac%5B%5D=POV&hppshac%5B%5D=act&hppshac%5B%5D=1'

data_dict = parse_qs(data_str)

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

print(response.text)

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