GET and POST requests using Python

pip install requests

Making a Get request

# importing the requests library
import requests

# api-endpoint
URL = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json"

# location given here
location = "delhi technological university"

# defining a params dict for the parameters to be sent to the API
PARAMS = {'address':location}

# sending get request and saving the response as response object
r = requests.get(url = URL, params = PARAMS)

# extracting data in json format
data = r.json()


# extracting latitude, longitude and formatted address
# of the first matching location
latitude = data['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat']
longitude = data['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lng']
formatted_address = data['results'][0]['formatted_address']

# printing the output
print("Latitude:%s\nLongitude:%s\nFormatted Address:%s"
    %(latitude, longitude,formatted_address))

Making a POST request

# importing the requests library
import requests

# defining the api-endpoint
API_ENDPOINT = "http://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php"

# your API key here
API_KEY = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

# your source code here
source_code = '''
print("Hello, world!")
a = 1
b = 2
print(a + b)
'''

# data to be sent to api
data = {'api_dev_key':API_KEY,
        'api_option':'paste',
        'api_paste_code':source_code,
        'api_paste_format':'python'}

# sending post request and saving response as response object
r = requests.post(url = API_ENDPOINT, data = data)

# extracting response text
pastebin_url = r.text
print("The pastebin URL is:%s"%pastebin_url)

References
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/get-post-requests-using-python/
https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_requests_post.asp

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