Make a POST request to a web page, and return the response text:
import requests
url = 'https://www.w3schools.com/python/demopage.php'
myobj = {'somekey': 'somevalue'}
x = requests.post(url, json = myobj)
print(x.text)
The post()
method sends a POST request to the specified url.
The post()
method is used when you want to send some data to the server.
requests.post(url, data={key: value}, json={key: value}, args)
args means zero or more of the named arguments in the parameter table below. Example:
requests.post(url, data = myobj, timeout=2.50)
Parameter Values Parameter Description url Try it Required. The url of the request data Try it Optional. A dictionary, list of tuples, bytes or a file object to send to the specified url json Try it Optional. A JSON object to send to the specified url files Try it Optional. A dictionary of files to send to the specified url allow_redirects Try it Optional. A Boolean to enable/disable redirection.True
(allowing redirects) auth Try it Optional. A tuple to enable a certain HTTP authentication.
None
cert Try it Optional. A String or Tuple specifying a cert file or key.
None
cookies Try it Optional. A dictionary of cookies to send to the specified url.
None
headers Try it Optional. A dictionary of HTTP headers to send to the specified url.
None
proxies Try it Optional. A dictionary of the protocol to the proxy url.
None
stream Try it Optional. A Boolean indication if the response should be immediately downloaded (False) or streamed (True).
False
timeout Try it Optional. A number, or a tuple, indicating how many seconds to wait for the client to make a connection and/or send a response.
None
which means the request will continue until the connection is closed verify Try it
True
Return Value
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