How to specify python requests http put body?

omer bach picture omer bach · Aug 6, 2012 · Viewed 91.4k times · Source

I'm trying to rewrite some old python code with requests module. The purpose is to upload an attachment. The mail server requires the following specification :

https://api.elasticemail.com/attachments/upload?username=yourusername&api_key=yourapikey&file=yourfilename

Old code which works:

h = httplib2.Http()        
        resp, content = h.request('https://api.elasticemail.com/attachments/upload?username=omer&api_key=b01ad0ce&file=tmp.txt', 
        "PUT", body=file(filepath).read(), 
        headers={'content-type':'text/plain'} )

Didn't find how to use the body part in requests.

I managed to do the following:

 response = requests.put('https://api.elasticemail.com/attachments/upload',
                    data={"file":filepath},                         
                     auth=('omer', 'b01ad0ce')                  
                     )

But have no idea how to specify the body part with the content of the file.

Thanks for your help. Omer.

Answer

raben picture raben · Aug 6, 2012

Quoting from the docs

data – (optional) Dictionary or bytes to send in the body of the Request.

So this should work (not tested):

 filepath = 'yourfilename.txt'
 with open(filepath) as fh:
     mydata = fh.read()
     response = requests.put('https://api.elasticemail.com/attachments/upload',
                data=mydata,                         
                auth=('omer', 'b01ad0ce'),
                headers={'content-type':'text/plain'},
                params={'file': filepath}
                 )