I am trying to implement a searchbar in django. I am getting the search input as movie_title from the html form. Now, how do i include it in my api call ? I tried with curly braces. Here's is the code
def searchbar(request):
if request.method == 'GET':
movie_title = request.GET.get('movie_title')
searched_movie = requests.get(
'http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=9a63b7fd&t={movie_title}')
You can create the url as an object using f-strings (one of the ways) and pass that to the get() method:
url = f'http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=9a63b7fd&t={movie_title}'
searched_movie = requests.get(url)
Note: You don't need to create a different object and can directly use:
searched_movie = requests.get(f'http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=9a63b7fd&t={movie_title}')
The above approach helps with readability when there are several dynamic attributes involved.
If you want to use { and } in your query string you can simply write
searched_movie = requests.get('http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=9a63b7fd&t={'+movie_title+'}')
Otherwise you can write
searched_movie = requests.get('http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=9a63b7fd&t='+movie_title)
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