Requirements

pip installed

Note: We will use httpbin.org in this post. httpbin.org is a web service that allows us to test the HTTP request.

Install Python Requests Package

pip install requests

To verify installation, run following command in Python shell...

import requests

Python Http Get request

import requests

r = requests.get('https://www.github.com')
print(r.status_code)

Output of above code...

200

To extract the html of the website just do r.text

text = r.text

To look at other options, just do r.<tab>

r.headers will give you all the headers information.

r.headers

Python Get Requests Pass Parameters 

import requests

payload = {'user_name': 'test', 'password': 'test'}
r = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", data=payload)
print(r.url)
print(r.text)

Python Get Json

Python POST Requests

Post requests are used to post data to server. 

import requests

payload = {'user_name': 'test', 'password': 'test'}
r = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", data=payload)
print(r.url)
print(r.text)

Python Post Json

Method 1

We can also post Json data using Python requests. 

jsonData = {
    "id": 1,
    "name":"John"
}

requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', json=jsonData)

Method 2

We can also pass in headers and let the receiving side know that data is in Json form.

import requests

headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain'}

response = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post',
                         data={'id': 1, 'name': 'John'},
                         headers=headers)

print("Status code: ", response.status_code)

response_Json = response.json()
print("Printing Post JSON data")
print(response_Json['data'])

print("Content-Type is ", response_Json['headers']['Content-Type'])

Output of above code is...

Status code:  200
{"id": 1, "name": "John"}
Content Type is  application/json