[Fixed]-Convert requests.models.Response to Django HttpResponse

To add to Brian Loughnane’s answer: when I tried the solution:

for k, v in requests_response.headers.items():
    django_response[k] = v

I got an error from django: AssertionError: Hop-by-hop headers not allowed

I don’t know if it’s the best solution but I "fixed" it by removing the offending headers.

from wsgiref.util import is_hop_by_hop

for k, v in requests_response.headers.items():
    if not is_hop_by_hop(k):
        django_response[k] = v

This may help you :

requests.models.Response class which,has json() method (according to the documentation) that deserializes the JSON response into a Python object using json.loads(). Try to print following and you can access whatever you are looking for.

print yourResponse.json()

To add to paivatulio’s answer, you can forward the headers like so:

for k, v in requests_response.headers.items():
  django_response[k] = v

I don’t know if this should be a comment but I don’t have enough reputation to post comments, but this might help:

If you came searching for Django Rest Framework way of doing this, we can modify @paivatulio’s answer like this:

import requests
from rest_framework.response import Response

requests_response = requests.get('/some-url/')

def covert_to_drf_response(response):
    drf_response = Response(
        data=requests_response.json(), 
      status=requests_response.status_code), 
    )

    return drf_response

drf_response = convert_to_drf_response(requests_response)

This might also be helpful if you prefer to use DRF’s Response over HttpResponse for the reasons stated here

You can also set your content_type as @paivatulio did.