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One API I'm currently using specifies that I need a special content-type string. I don't know how do I set this in python-requests library

EnderSodium
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  • possible duplicate of [Post JSON using Python Requests](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9733638/post-json-using-python-requests) – Tim Sep 18 '15 at 11:52
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    Just set the header? `requests` will set the `Content-Type` only if you use `data`, `files` or `json` as arguments to the `requests.post()` call, and you can always override that with the `headers` dictionary. – Martijn Pieters Sep 18 '15 at 11:57

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import requests

headers = {'Content-type': 'content_type_value'}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
Vikas Ojha
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    For anyone else who ended up here because of googling an error message: Note that usually, you don't want to explicitely set the header. The requests library will do it for you. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/57479286/4629950 . The answer from Vikas Ohja is still correct because in this case the question was explicitely about setting it manually. – Thomas Aug 18 '21 at 09:07