How to do GET and POST requests using Python?

To make HTTP requests in python, several HTTP libraries (e.g. httplib, urllib, requests) are available to download. But the most famous and simple library is the requests lib and today we gonna talk about it.

1. Download and install requests library

$ pip install requests

2. Creating a Get request

# importing the requests library 
import requests
# create new getRequest function
def getRequest(requests):  
    endpoint = "http://openlibrary.org/api/books"  
    params = {'bibkeys':'ISBN:0201558025'}
    r = requests.get(url = endpoint, params = params)
    data = r.text 
    print("Get Reponse:%s"%data) 
# call the getRequest function
getRequest(requests)

Output

Get Reponse:var _OLBookInfo = {"ISBN:0201558025": {"bib_key": "ISBN:0201558025", "preview": "restricted", "thumbnail_url": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/135182-S.jpg", "preview_url": "https://archive.org/details/concretemathemat00grah_444", "info_url": "http://openlibrary.org/books/OL1429049M/Concrete_mathematics"}};

3. Creating a Post request

# importing the requests library 
import requests
# create new postRequest function
def postRequest(requests):  
    endpoint = "http://<your-domain>/api/<post-method>"  
    data= {'test':'Hello World'}
    r = requests.post(url = endpoint, data= data)
    data = r.text 
    print("Get Reponse:%s"%data) 
# call the postRequest fucntion
postRequest(requests)

Output

Get Reponse:{"statusCode":200}

That’s it. I hope this will help. ?
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