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--- python_wiki:requests [2018/08/09 23:19]
billdozor [Requests]
+++ python_wiki:requests [2018/08/09 23:37]
billdozor [POST]
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 The requests library is a http library that allows you to interact with web servers via Python.
+\\
 Sites to Practice Using Requests Against:
   * Generic http request and response server: http://httpbin.org/
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 Requests supports the following http request types.
 <code python>
-my_site = "http://www.mysite.org/"
+my_site = "http://httpbin.org/"
 # GET
-response = request.get(my_site)
+response = requests.get(my_site + "get")
 # POST
-response = request.post(my_site)
+response = requests.post(my_site + "post")
 # PUT
-response = request.put(my_site)
+response = requests.put(my_site + "put")
 # DELETE
-response = request.delete(my_site)
+response = requests.delete(my_site + "delete")
+##-- head and options responses are not implemented in the httpbin.org website --##
 # HEAD
-response = request.head(my_site)
+response = requests.head(my_site)
 # OPTIONS
-response = request.options(my_site)
+response = requests.options(my_site)
 </code>
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 Send data in a POST request.
+\\
+Example: Use the httpbin.org site to delay 5 seconds (will replace with a more interesting example later)
+<code bash>
+#!/usr/bin/python
+import requests
+# Post the request (this will delay/sleep for 5 seconds)
+response = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/delay/5")
+# Extract the JSON object from the response
+data = response.json()
+# Show http status code
+print("Status code is:" + str(response.status_code))
+print("Returned response is:")
+print(data)
+</code>
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