How to get post data from flask

Question

I cant figure out how to get post data from flask.

Below is my content-type

'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

Here is what I see from flask so I know the data is there. I just cant access it.

request.values -> CombinedMultiDict([ImmutableMultiDict([]), ImmutableMultiDict([('{"email":"david","password":"FU"}', u'')])])

So...how do I get email and password?

email = request.?????

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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Final solution that worked:

data = request.values.to_dict().keys()[0]
data = json.loads(data)

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

Community

answered Nov 24 '15 at 19:44

Celeo

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While this code may answer the question, it would be better to include some context, explaining how it works and when to use it. Code-only answers are not useful in the long run. – Bono Nov 24 '15 at 20:40
Thank you this work for me. The above solution is perfect if you integrate a third party API and you can't modified. In my case I had to consume a POST request with json format on body with headers = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. – mr antoni Jun 06 '17 at 09:09
can this be used for data stream? – Yaroslav Dukal Mar 16 '18 at 02:48

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '17 at 09:14

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You can force Flask to treat the data as JSON using request.get_json() setting the force argument to True

data = request.get_json(force=True)

answered Jun 06 '17 at 09:14

mr antoni

2 Answers2