Python - Using Requests Module to Make GET, POST, PUT and DELETE RESTful API Requests

Hi everyone!

I have previously shown you how to create RESTful APIs in Python using Flask. But what if you want to make requests to an API in Python? Today I will show you how to make requests to rest APIs in Python using the requests module. I will show you put, post, delete and get HTTP methods so that you can call any API you need... I will also show you how to send JSON payloads and also set headers and how to get the status code, response and response headers.

All my code showing you how to make requests to restful APIs can be found on GitHub:

I also have a tutorial on how to create RESTful APIs in Python, you can see that here:

And the code for those apis built using the Flask module can be found here on GitHub

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[MissCoding]

Is there anything else you want to see in Python? Let me know in the comments 💻

[masterofnan]

This was really helpful, thank you! I'm new to REST APIs and web stuff with Python and this is just what I needed to get me started! 😊

[DannyG]

Thanks for this! I was looking for this exact type of example 🙏

[pbhmubd]

@MissCoding - Thanks for the video. but how to pass multiple parameters in post request like employee ={"name" : name, "id":id} and then passing it as json payload (json=employee) in response ?

[anarey]

Thank you for the tutorial I really liked it! 😊
Just wondering if you could show the outputs in a nicer format instead of all the green text in the cmd? Maybe show the outputs in pycharm? Might be easier to follow them

[uhmovkk]

do you would did some markers and parametrization, conftest, and something else with a selenium, and if you could did some video with devopsing in python thats will be great

[testlan]

do you ever encounter the curl works fine, but when use python requests.post, it doesn't work and always return 404 issue.

[jwc]

I would like to know whats the codes for the port 5000 looks like

[varunmotwani]

how can we fire a delete request in order to delete all products at once.

[ojobdhk]

How to create a twitter bot with requests?