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How can I do a python API request with the body?

Rekcah

if I do a POST request on Postman with my local API server it works:

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But if I try in python with this syntax it doesn’t work: requests.post('http://127.0.0.1:5001/api/v0/add', data={'path': 'test'}).text

it returns: "file argument 'path' is requiredn"

Can you please explain me why it doesn’t work?

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Answer

The issue is that using data on requests.post defaults to application/x-www-form-urlencoded while your application wants multipart/form-data. Try using files instead of data:

requests.post('http://127.0.0.1:5001/api/v0/add', files={'path': 'test'}).text