Mastering Python Requests: GET & POST API Calls Made Easy

1. Install requests module

pip install requests

2. Use requests module to implement GET request

Using the GET method mainly involves the requests.get function. requests.get() The common parameters for get are url, params, and headers: url: the remote API address params: query parameters for the GET request headers: header information for the request

A simple implementation of a GET request looks like this:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import requests
import ast
# API endpoint
url = 'XXX'
# GET parameters
data = {'type': '0'}
# Headers
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
  'Authorization': 'Bearer XXX'
}
# Send request
r = requests.get(url, params=data, headers=headers)
print(r.status_code)          # status code
content = r.text               # response text
content_list = ast.literal_eval(content)  # convert string to dict
print(content_list)
print(r.json())                # JSON response

3. Use requests module to implement POST request

Using the POST method mainly involves the requests.post function. requests.post() The common parameters for post are url, data, and headers: url: the remote API address data: body data for the POST request headers: header information for the request

A simple implementation of a POST request looks like this:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import requests
import ast
# API endpoint
url = 'XXX'
# Headers
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
  'Authorization': 'Bearer XXX'
}
# POST data
data = {
  'nickname': '111',
  'gender': 1,
  'city': 'ce',
  'avatar': '111'
}
# Send request
r = requests.post(url, data=data, headers=headers)
print(r.status_code)          # status code
content = r.text               # response text
content_list = ast.literal_eval(content)  # convert string to dict
print(content_list)
print(r.json())                # JSON response