How to retrieve GET vars in python bottle app

python bottle query-parameters
Maanas Royy picture Maanas Royy · Oct 23, 2012 · Viewed 27.3k times · Source

I'm trying to make a simple REST api using the Python bottle app. I'm facing a problem in retrieving the GET variables from the request global object. Any suggestions how to retrieve this from the GET request?

Answer

Nathan Villaescusa picture Nathan Villaescusa · Oct 23, 2012

They are stored in the request.query object.

http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial.html#query-variables

It looks like you can also access them by treating the request.query attribute like a dictionary:

request.query['city']

So dict(request.query) would create a dictionary of all the query parameters.

As @mklauber notes, this will not work for multi-byte characters. It looks like the best method is:

my_dict = request.query.decode()

or:

dict(request.query.decode())

to have a dict instead of a <bottle.FormsDict object at 0x000000000391B...> object.

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