Get requests from python aren't sent on php

Question

I send my data through get request from python to php website (it's on hosting) and it doesn't work. But when it's on localhost it works

Php:

<?php
$req_dump = print_r($_REQUEST, true);
$fp = file_put_contents('text.txt', $req_dump, FILE_APPEND);
 ?>

Python:

import requests

while True:
    theWeight = input("Enter ")
    r = requests.get('http://localhost:81/index.php', params={'weight': theWeight})
    print(r.url)

I edit only this string for the site that's on hosting and it doesn't get the GET requests

r = requests.get('http://example.com/index.php', params={'weight': theWeight})

Ok, if you do a GET request with your browser it works? (http://example.com/index.php?weight=8) — lorenzo, Jul 19 '19 at 11:00
I have done this one day ago and it worked, but I lost files that I did. — Dee Dee, Jul 19 '19 at 11:17
I tried to do the python code on online compiler and it worked, I don't know why — Dee Dee, Jul 19 '19 at 12:13
What is the result of r.text on when you exec the code from your PC? — lorenzo, Jul 19 '19 at 12:15
Oh ok, I think I have figured out. I will post all in an answer — lorenzo, Jul 19 '19 at 12:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 19 '19 at 12:52

The problem is that your page requires JavaScript for work correctly as shown in the r.text output (i.imgur.com/k5hAEZ0.png).

Now your PHP code doesn't anything other than write the .txt file, there is some HTML/JS code under that?

If not it can be that your hosting provider web server has some filter for "no-js-enabled" HTTP requests? I find it strange that the code stops working only on the hosting server

Another way of solving this problem is by using another python lib that supports JavaScript: Web-scraping JavaScript page with Python

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '19 at 13:29

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Well it was because of the hosting, I only changed it and it works

answered Jul 20 '19 at 13:29

Dee Dee

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