Python HTTP Request to replace bash curl

Question

I'm porting some automation scripts from bash to python, and they're almost ll curl commands of the following format:

curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{               "Request": {
                          "MessageID": "xxxx",
                          "MessageDateTime": "xxxxx",
                          "SourceSystem": "xxxx",

           }
}' https://myUrl.xxx

What's the best way to structure this in Python accurately? So far I have:

import requests

headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
payload = {'All the data'}
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("myUrl.xxx")
conn.request("POST", "", payload, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print response

I want to make sure the -k, -d, and -x bash options are being reflected in this script. Thank you!

You import requests but don't use it.

Alex Hall
– Alex Hall

2016-06-09 16:24:23 +00:00
Commented Jun 9, 2016 at 16:24 — Alex Hall
– Alex Hall, Commented Jun 9, 2016 at 16:24

Daniel · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-09 16:54:51Z

2

You can use requests.post directly. -k corresponds to verify=False:

from datetime import datetime as DateTime
import requests
import json

URL = "https://myUrl.xxx"

message = {
    "Request": {
        "MessageID": "xxxx",
        "MessageDateTime": DateTime.now().isoformat(),
        "SourceSystem": "xxxx",
    }
}

response = requests.post(URL, data=json.dumps(message), verify=False, headers={"Content-Type":"application/json"})
data = response.json()

edited Jun 9, 2016 at 16:54

answered Jun 9, 2016 at 16:30

Daniel

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3 Comments

Connor Spangler Over a year ago

Perfect, thank you. I'm new to Python, so in the message key pair structure, how can I insert a variable containing the current ISO data timestamp after "MessageDateTime"? Thank you!

chishaku Over a year ago

@EschersEnigma import datetime; now = datetime.datetime.now() ... "MessageDateTime": now

Alex Hall Over a year ago

You can also say json=message, which does the json.dumps and the headers for you.

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