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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Post List of Dictionary

If you want to send a list of dictionaries in a POST request using Python requests module, you need to pass them as a JSON object.

Using JSON

First, you need to import the requests module and the json module:


            import requests
            import json

Then, you can create a list of dictionaries:


            data = [
                {
                    "name": "John",
                    "age": 30
                },
                {
                    "name": "Jane",
                    "age": 25
                }
            ]

Next, you can convert the list of dictionaries to a JSON object:


            json_data = json.dumps(data)

Then, you can send a POST request with the JSON data:


            response = requests.post(url, data=json_data)

Make sure to set the Content-Type header to application/json:


            headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
            response = requests.post(url, data=json_data, headers=headers)

Using Form Data

You can also send a list of dictionaries as form data. In this case, you need to use the urlencode function from the urllib module to encode the form data:


            import requests
            from urllib.parse import urlencode

            data = [
                {
                    "name": "John",
                    "age": 30
                },
                {
                    "name": "Jane",
                    "age": 25
                }
            ]

            encoded_data = urlencode({"data": data})
            response = requests.post(url, data=encoded_data)

Make sure to set the Content-Type header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded:


            headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
            response = requests.post(url, data=encoded_data, headers=headers)

These are two ways you can send a list of dictionaries in a POST request using Python requests module.

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