how to POST contents of JSON file to RESTFUL API with Python using requests module

Question

Okay, I give up. I am trying to post the contents of a file that contains JSON. The contents of the file look like this:

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{
     \"id”:99999999,
              


        

Answer 1

You need to parse the JSON, and pass that the body like so:

import requests
import json
json_data = None

with open('example.json') as json_file:
    json_data = json.load(json_file)

auth=('token', 'example')

r = requests.post('https://api.example.com/api/dir/v1/accounts/9999999/orders', json=json_data, auth=auth)