get request parameters in python flask code example

Example 1: python flask query params

from flask import request

@app.route('/data')
def data():
    # here we want to get the value of user (i.e. ?user=some-value)
    user = request.args.get('user')

Example 2: flask get with parameters

from flask import request

@app.route('/my-route')
def my_route():
  page = request.args.get('page', default = 1, type = int)
  filter = request.args.get('filter', default = '*', type = str)

Example 3: post request in python flaks

import json
import requests

api_url = 'http://localhost:5000/create-row-in-gs'
create_row_data = {'id': '1235','name':'Joel','created_on':'27/01/2018','modified_on':'27/01/2018','desc':'This is Joel!!'}
print(create_row_data)
r = requests.post(url=api_url, json=create_row_data)
print(r.status_code, r.reason, r.text)
Server:

from flask import Flask,jsonify,request,make_response,url_for,redirect
import requests, json

app = Flask(__name__)

url = 'https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/catch/xxxxx/yyyyy/'

@app.route('/create-row-in-gs', methods=['GET','POST'])
def create_row_in_gs():
    if request.method == 'GET':
        return make_response('failure')
    if request.method == 'POST':
        t_id = request.json['id']
        t_name = request.json['name']
        created_on = request.json['created_on']
        modified_on = request.json['modified_on']
        desc = request.json['desc']

        create_row_data = {'id': str(t_id),'name':str(t_name),'created-on':str(created_on),'modified-on':str(modified_on),'desc':str(desc)}

        response = requests.post(
            url, data=json.dumps(create_row_data),
            headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
        )
        return response.content

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host='localhost',debug=False, use_reloader=True)

Example 4: flask get with parameters

@app.route('/<name>')
def my_view_func(name):
    return name

Example 5: flask get with parameters

/my-route?page=34               -> page: 34  filter: '*'
/my-route                       -> page:  1  filter: '*'
/my-route?page=10&filter=test   -> page: 10  filter: 'test'
/my-route?page=10&filter=10     -> page: 10  filter: '10'
/my-route?page=*&filter=*       -> page:  1  filter: '*'