make a http request with a custom body as json in python
Here's an example code snippet for making a HTTP POST request with a JSON payload in Python:
main.py
import json
import requests
url = 'http://example.com/api'payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload))
# Alternatively, you can pass the payload as a python object, and let# requests convert it to JSON# r = requests.post(url, json=payload)print(r.status_code)
print(r.json())
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Explanation:
We import the json and requests libraries at the start of the script
We define the target url and the payload dictionary
We make a HTTP POST request to the URL, passing the payload dictionary as the data parameter, after converting it to a JSON string using the json.dumps() method
We can alternatively pass the payload as a Python object using the json parameter, and requests will automatically serialize it to JSON as needed
We then print the status code of the response and the JSON content of the response body using the r.status_code and r.json() methods, respectively.