Python - make a POST request using Python 3 urllib
Thank you C Panda. You really made it easy for me to learn this module.
I released the dictionary that we pass does not encode for me. I had to do a minor change -
from urllib import request, parse
import json
# Data dict
data = { 'test1': 10, 'test2': 20 }
# Dict to Json
# Difference is { "test":10, "test2":20 }
data = json.dumps(data)
# Convert to String
data = str(data)
# Convert string to byte
data = data.encode('utf-8')
# Post Method is invoked if data != None
req = request.Request(<your url>, data=data)
# Response
resp = request.urlopen(req)
The above code encoded the JSON string with some extra \" that caused me a lot of problems. This looks like a better way of doing it:
from urllib import request, parse
url = "http://www.example.com/page"
data = {'test1': 10, 'test2': 20}
data = parse.urlencode(data).encode()
req = request.Request(url, data=data)
response = request.urlopen(req)
print (response.read())
This is how you do it.
from urllib import request, parse
data = parse.urlencode(<your data dict>).encode()
req = request.Request(<your url>, data=data) # this will make the method "POST"
resp = request.urlopen(req)