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I'm trying to GET an URL of the following format using requests.get() in python:
http://api.example.com/export/?format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel
#!/usr/local/bin/python
import requests
print(requests.__versiom__)
url = 'http://api.example.com/export/'
payload = {'format': 'json', 'key': 'site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'}
r = requests.get(url, params=payload)
print(r.url)
However, the URL gets percent encoded and I don't get the expected response.
2.2.1
http://api.example.com/export/?key=site%3Adummy%2Btype%3Aexample%2Bgroup%3Awheel&format=json
This works if I pass the URL directly:
url = http://api.example.com/export/?format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel
r = requests.get(url)
Is there some way to pass the the parameters in their original form - without percent encoding?
Thanks!
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It is not good solution but you can use directly string:
r = requests.get(url, params='format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel')
Code which convert payload to this string
payload = {
'format': 'json',
'key': 'site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'
payload_str = "&".join("%s=%s" % (k,v) for k,v in payload.items())
# 'format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'
r = requests.get(url, params=payload_str)
EDIT (2020):
You can also use urllib.parse.urlencode(...) with parameter safe=':+' to create string without converting chars :+ .
As I know requests also use urllib.parse.urlencode(...) for this but without safe=.
import requests
import urllib.parse
payload = {
'format': 'json',
'key': 'site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'
payload_str = urllib.parse.urlencode(payload, safe=':+')
# 'format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'
url = 'https://httpbin.org/get'
r = requests.get(url, params=payload_str)
print(r.text)
I used page https://httpbin.org/get to test it.
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In case someone else comes across this in the future, you can subclass requests.Session, override the send method, and alter the raw url, to fix percent encodings and the like.
Corrections to the below are welcome.
import requests, urllib
class NoQuotedCommasSession(requests.Session):
def send(self, *a, **kw):
# a[0] is prepared request
a[0].url = a[0].url.replace(urllib.parse.quote(","), ",")
return requests.Session.send(self, *a, **kw)
s = NoQuotedCommasSession()
s.get("http://somesite.com/an,url,with,commas,that,won't,be,encoded.")
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The answers above didn't work for me.
I was trying to do a get request where the parameter contained a pipe, but python requests would also percent encode the pipe. So
instead i used urlopen:
# python3
from urllib.request import urlopen
base_url = 'http://www.example.com/search?'
query = 'date_range=2017-01-01|2017-03-01'
url = base_url + query
response = urlopen(url)
data = response.read()
# response data valid
print(response.url)
# output: 'http://www.example.com/search?date_range=2017-01-01|2017-03-01'
All above solutions don't seem to work anymore from requests version 2.26 on. The suggested solution from the GitHub repo seems to be using a work around with a PreparedRequest.
The following worked for me. Make sure the URL is resolvable, so don't use 'this-is-not-a-domain.com'.
import requests
base_url = 'https://www.example.com/search'
query = '?format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'
s = requests.Session()
req = requests.Request('GET', base_url)
p = req.prepare()
p.url += query
resp = s.send(p)
print(resp.request.url)
Source: https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/5964#issuecomment-949013046
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