Sending GET, POST, PUT, DELETE Requests In Python

Hello, I'm Aya Bouchiha, today, we'll talk about sending requests in python using the requests module

installation

pip install requests

What's GET request

GET: is a request used for getting or retrieving data or information from a specified server.

Sending GET requests in Python using requests

import requests

url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1'

response = requests.get(url)

# <Response [200]>
print(response)

# 200
print(response.status_code)

# {
#  "userId": 1,
#  "id": 1,
#  "title": "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit",
#  "body": "quia et suscipit\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto"
#}
print(response.text)

# https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1
print(response.url)

# application\json; charset=utf-8
print(response.headers['Content-Type'])

# b'{\n  "userId": 1,\n  "id": 1,\n  "title": "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit",\n  "body": "quia et suscipit\\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto"\n}'
print(response.content)

# {'userId': 1, 'id': 1, 'title': 'sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit', 'body': 'quia et suscipit\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto'}
print(response.json())

# <class 'dict'>
print(type(response.json()))

# for more information
# print(dir(response))

What's POST request

POST: is a request that is used for sending information or data to a specific server.

Sending POST requests in Python using requests

import requests
import json

url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts'

data = { 'title': 'buy new mouse','body': 'I need to buy a new mouse !','userId': 5,}
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'}

response = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)

# 201
print(response.status_code)

# True
print(response.ok)

# b'{\n  "title": "buy new mouse",\n  "body": "I need to buy a new mouse !",\n  "userId": 5,\n  "id": 101\n}'
print(response.content)

# {
#   "title": "buy new mouse",
#   "body": "I need to buy a new mouse !",
#   "userId": 5,
#   "id": 101
# }
print(response.text)

# <class 'str'>
print(type(response.text))

# https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
print(response.url)

# application/json; charset=utf-8
print(response.headers['Content-Type'])

# utf-8
print(response.encoding)

What's the PUT request

PUT: is a request used for creating or updating a resource in a specific server.

Sending PUT requests in Python using requests

import requests
import json

url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1'
data = {'id':1, 'userId':2, 'title':'drink water', 'body':'drinking water is important'}
headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json; charset=UTF-8'}
response = requests.put(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)


# 200
print(response.status_code)

# True
print(response.ok)

# b'{\n  "id": 1,\n  "userId": 2,\n  "title": "drink water",\n  "body": "drinking water is important"\n}'
print(response.content)

# {
#   "id": 1,
#   "userId": 2,
#   "title": "drink water",
#   "body": "drinking water is important" 
# }
print(response.text)

# <class 'str'>
print(type(response.text))

# https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
print(response.url)

# application/json; charset=utf-8
print(response.headers['Content-Type'])

# utf-8
print(response.encoding)

What's a delete request

DELETE: is a request used to delete a specific resource in a server.

Sending a DELETE request in python

import requests
import json

url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1'

headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'}

response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)

print(response.status_code) # 200

print(response.ok) # True

print(type(response.text)) # <class 'str'>

print(response.url) # https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1

print(response.headers['Content-Type']) # application/json; charset=utf-8

print(response.encoding) # utf-8