Make a POST request to a web page, and return the response text:
url = 'https://www.w3schools.com/python/demopage.php'
myobj =
x = requests.post(url, json = myobj)
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.
args means zero or more of the named arguments in the parameter table below. Example:
requests.post(url, data = myobj, timeout=2.50)| 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. Default True (allowing redirects) |
| auth | Try it | Optional. A tuple to enable a certain HTTP authentication. Default None |
| cert | Try it | Optional. A String or Tuple specifying a cert file or key. Default None |
| cookies | Try it | Optional. A dictionary of cookies to send to the specified url. Default None |
| headers | Try it | Optional. A dictionary of HTTP headers to send to the specified url. Default None |
| proxies | Try it | Optional. A dictionary of the protocol to the proxy url. Default None |
| stream | Try it | Optional. A Boolean indication if the response should be immediately downloaded (False) or streamed (True). Default 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. Default None which means the request will continue until the connection is closed |
| verify | Try it Try it | Optional. A Boolean or a String indication to verify the servers TLS certificate or not. Default True |