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I have difficulties converting a post request using htppie to python requests.post. This question is in general about how to do such a conversion, but I will use the specific request I was doing as an example.

So I have the following post request using httpie, which works fine:

http post https://api.thegraph.com/subgraphs/name/graphprotocol/graph-network-mainnet query='{ indexers {
                id
               }
}'

However, when trying to send the same request using pythons requests library, I tried the following:

import requests

url = 'https://api.thegraph.com/subgraphs/name/graphprotocol/graph-network-mainnet'

query = """'{ indexers {
                id
                }
}'"""

print(requests.post(url, data = query).text)

This gives a server error (I tried many versions of this, as well as sending a dictionary for the data variable, and they all give the same error). The server error was GraphQL server error (client error): expected value at line 1 column 1.

Regardless of what the server error is (which is probably server specific), this at least means that the two requests obviously are not exactly the same.

So how would I go about converting this httpie request to using pythons requests library (or any other python library for that matter)?

Jonathan Lindgren
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  • Looks like you've got too many quotes in your Python code. You're including a literal `'` in your Python query, which you're not including when running the shell command. – larsks Mar 08 '21 at 22:01
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    i like to use a request inspector to compare things e.g. https://requestbin.net/ make one request from httpie and another from python and compare, then fix the differences – Macattack Mar 08 '21 at 22:02

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To pass request payload, you need pass json as string (I used json.dumps() for conversion). To pass body as form-data, pass just dict.

import json
import requests

url = 'https://api.thegraph.com/subgraphs/name/graphprotocol/graph-network-mainnet'

payload=json.dumps({'query': '{indexers {id}}'})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=payload)

Note. I recommend that you try to make this request in Postman and then you can convert the code to Python right in Postman.

Dzianis Talkachou
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