[Django]-How to send a POST request using django?

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In Python 2, a combination of methods from urllib2 and urllib will do the trick. Here is how I post data using the two:

post_data = [('name','Gladys'),]     # a sequence of two element tuples
result = urllib2.urlopen('http://example.com', urllib.urlencode(post_data))
content = result.read()

urlopen() is a method you use for opening urls.
urlencode() converts the arguments to percent-encoded string.

👤gladysbixly

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Here’s how you’d write the accepted answer’s example using python-requests:

post_data = {'name': 'Gladys'}
response = requests.post('http://example.com', data=post_data)
content = response.content

Much more intuitive. See the Quickstart for more simple examples.

👤Rick Mohr

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The only thing you should look at now:

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/

👤lajarre

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You can use urllib2 in django. After all, it’s still python. To send a POST with urllib2, you can send the data parameter (taken from here):

urllib2.urlopen(url[, data][, timeout])

[..] the HTTP request will be a POST instead of a GET when the data parameter is provided

👤Gabi Purcaru

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Pay attention, that when you’re using 🐍 requests , and make POST request passing your dictionary in data parameter like this:

payload = {'param1':1, 'param2':2}
r = request.post('https://domain.tld', data=payload)

you are passing parameters form-encoded.

If you want to send POST request with only JSON (most popular type in server-server integration) you need to provide a str() in data parameter. In case with JSON, you need to import json lib and make like this:

 payload = {'param1':1, 'param2':2}
 r = request.post('https://domain.tld', data=json.dumps(payload))`

documentation is here

OR:
just use json parameter with provided data in the dict

payload = {'param1':1, 'param2':2}
r = request.post('https://domain.tld', json=payload)`
👤fanni

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