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I am trying to call an API and pass some parameters to it.

My endpoint should look like: https://example.com?q=food (food is the parameter)

import requests
parametervalue = "food"
r = requests.get("https://example.com/q=", parametervalue)

When I do print r.url, I do not get the correct result - the value is not passed.

Error:

  r = requests.get('https://example.com', params={'1':parametervalue})
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 55, in get
  return request('get', url, **kwargs)

Update:

Answer posted below. Thank you.

Note: The SSL error mentioned in the post was due to me running Python 2.7. I used python 3 and it fixed the issue.

Olivia Stork
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Here's the relevant code to perform a GET http call from the official documentation:

import requests
payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get', params=payload)

In order to adapt it to your specific request:

import requests
payload = {'q': 'food'}
r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get', params=payload)
print (r.text)

Here's the obtained result if I run the 2nd example:

python request_test.py
{"args":{"q":"food"},"headers":{"Accept":"*/*","Accept-Encoding":"gzip, deflate","Connection":"close","Host":"httpbin.org","User-Agent":"python-requests/2.18.1"},"origin":"x.y.z.a","url":"http://httpbin.org/get?q=food"}
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  • r = requests.get('https://example.com', params={'1':parametervalue}) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 55, in get return request('get', url, **kwargs) – Cody Raspien Jun 07 '18 at 09:50
  • I get it - thanx. I was also getting SSL errors because I was using Python2. Switching to 3 fixed the issue. – Cody Raspien Jun 07 '18 at 11:20