How do I post curl command as a python request?

Question

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"path": "<subgroup_path>", "name": "<subgroup_name>", "parent_id": <parent_group_id> } \
  "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/"

I was following the documentation from gitlab. I just wanted to to know how to represent the part after --data as a python request. Will it be a part of params, json or any other parameter in requests module?

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 11 '20 at 14:13

Here's the equivalent using requests:

import requests
import json

headers = {
    "PRIVATE-TOKEN": "<your_access_token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
}
data = {
    "path": "<subgroup_path>",
    "name": "<subgroup_name>",
    "parent_id": "<parent_group_id>",
}

requests.post("https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/",
    headers=headers, data=json.dumps(data))

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '20 at 14:12

It can be done by python's requests package.

import requests
import json

url = "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/"
headers = {'PRIVATE-TOKEN': '<your_access_token>', 'Content-Type':'application/json'}
data = {"path": "<subgroup_path>", "name": "<subgroup_name>", "parent_id": <parent_group_id>}

requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)

reference : Python Request Post with param data

How do I post curl command as a python request?

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