Django creating/making POST request with headers

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I want to make a POST request programmatically with a custom headers. How can I do that?

Actually i am trying to do this; use google shortener api. Maybe i misunderstood :/

Thanks you in advance :)

`data = {"longUrl": "http://www.google.com/"}` `urllib.urlopen(api_url, data)` But here there is no headers. There is a class `urllib2.Request` found now, trying to use it :) — iskorum, Jun 20 '13 at 06:51

score 14 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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The answer working great. But found another solution;

import requests
import json

url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url'
data = {'longUrl': 'http://www.google.com/'}
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}

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

then

answer = json.loads(r.text)

or

answer = r.json()

Here is requests package; code and doc

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Jun 20 '13 at 07:32

iskorum

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Yes also requests is a great library – Victor Castillo Torres Jun 20 '13 at 16:39

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '13 at 07:12

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To send an POST request with Python and with headers you can do something like

import urllib2
import json
data = {'data':'data'}
url = api_url
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler)
request = urllib2.Request(url, data=json.dumps(data))
request.add_header("Content-Type", "application/json") #Header, Value                                        
opener.open(request)

edited Jun 20 '13 at 07:12

iskorum

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answered Jun 20 '13 at 06:56

Victor Castillo Torres

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Thank you :) but need a little change, this works when you make `data` json; `request = urllib2.Request(url, data=json.dumps(data))` – iskorum Jun 20 '13 at 07:08
It's only an example you can add some diferent header – Victor Castillo Torres Jun 20 '13 at 07:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 18 '15 at 01:31

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import json
import requests
def short_url(url):
    post_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key={API_KEY}'
    params = json.dumps({'longUrl': url})
    response = requests.post(post_url,params,headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
    return response.json()['id']

edited May 18 '15 at 01:31

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answered May 18 '15 at 01:09

Akshay Wadhavane

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Django creating/making POST request with headers

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