How can I make a Post Request on Python with urllib3?

Question

I\'ve been trying to make a request to an API, I have to pass the following body:

{
\"description\":\"Tenaris\",
\"ticker\":\"TS.BA\",
\"industry\":\"Metalúr         


        

Answer 1

Since you're trying to pass in a JSON request, you'll need to encode the body as JSON and pass it in with the body field.

For your example, you want to do something like:

import json
encoded_body = json.dumps({
        "description": "Tenaris",
        "ticker": "TS.BA",
        "industry": "Metalúrgica",
        "currency": "ARS",
    })

http = urllib3.PoolManager()

r = http.request('POST', 'http://localhost:8080/assets',
                 headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
                 body=encoded_body)

print r.read() # Do something with the response?

Edit: My original answer was wrong. Updated it to encode the JSON. Also, related question: How do I pass raw POST data into urllib3?