requests.post()

Python’s requests module comes with a method for making a “post” request to a web server; it returns a response object.

import requests

requests.post("url", **kwargs)

**kwargs are any number of dictionary items (named arguments) that are passed in as parameters.

The .post() method can take in various parameters. These parameters allow a user to communicate additional information to the web server, such as data or json, to send in the request body in order to create or update a resource.

import requests

data = {
  "my_key":"my_value"
}

response = requests.post("https://codecademy.com", data=data)

The response object returned by the .post method contains various types of data, such as the webpage text, status code, and the reason for that response.

import requests

data = {
  "my_key":"my_value"
}

response = requests.post("https://codecademy.com")

print(response.status_code)
# Output: 200

print(response.reason)
# Output: OK

Many different named parameters can be passed in to a post request. For example, they can be used to include cookies in the request, set proxies, set headers, or set a page timeout.