How to send a “multipart/form-data” with requests in python?

Question

How to send a multipart/form-data with requests in python? How to send a file, I understand, but how to send the form data by this method can not understand.

Answer 1

Here is the simple code snippet to upload a single file with additional parameters using requests:

url = 'https://<file_upload_url>'
fp = '/Users/jainik/Desktop/data.csv'

files = {'file': open(fp, 'rb')}
payload = {'file_id': '1234'}

response = requests.put(url, files=files, data=payload, verify=False)

Please note that you don't need to explicitly specify any content type.

NOTE: Wanted to comment on one of the above answers but could not because of low reputation so drafted a new response here.

Answer 2

I'm trying to send a request to URL_server with request module in python 3. This works for me:

# -*- coding: utf-8 *-*
import json, requests

URL_SERVER_TO_POST_DATA = "URL_to_send_POST_request"
HEADERS = {"Content-Type" : "multipart/form-data;"}

def getPointsCC_Function():
  file_data = {
      'var1': (None, "valueOfYourVariable_1"),
      'var2': (None, "valueOfYourVariable_2")
  }

  try:
    resElastic = requests.post(URL_GET_BALANCE, files=file_data)
    res = resElastic.json()
  except Exception as e:
    print(e)

  print (json.dumps(res, indent=4, sort_keys=True))

getPointsCC_Function()

Where:

• URL_SERVER_TO_POST_DATA = Server where we going to send data
• HEADERS = Headers sended
• file_data = Params sended

Answer 3

To clarify examples given above,

"You need to use the files parameter to send a multipart form POST request even when you do not need to upload any files."

files={}

won't work, unfortunately.

You will need to put some dummy values in, e.g.

files={"foo": "bar"}

I came up against this when trying to upload files to Bitbucket's REST API and had to write this abomination to avoid the dreaded "Unsupported Media Type" error:

url = "https://my-bitbucket.com/rest/api/latest/projects/FOO/repos/bar/browse/foobar.txt"
payload = {'branch': 'master', 
           'content': 'text that will appear in my file',
           'message': 'uploading directly from python'}
files = {"foo": "bar"}
response = requests.put(url, data=payload, files=files)

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