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Why does the github API python POST request not work?

I want to create a pull request on github using the API. The following curl command does work
curl \
-X POST \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" -H "Authorization: token ghp_abc...123" \
https://api.github.com/repos/alex4200/hello-world/pulls \
-d '{"head":"copyright_updater","base":"master","title":"Test PR curl"}'
but this python snippet does not work:
import requests
headers = {
"Accept": "application/vnd.github.v3+json",
"Authorization": "token ghp_abc...123"
}
data = {
"head": "copyright_updater",
"base": "master",
"title": "Test PR python"
}
response = requests.post(
"https://api.github.com/repos/alex4200/hello-world/pulls",
headers=headers,
data=data
)
print(response.text)
This command, with the exact same data as the curl, returns a 400 error with the message
{"message":"Problems parsing JSON","documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/rest/reference/pulls#create-a-pull-request"}
What is the problem here?

Convert CURL request to python 3

I have this curl request I would like to convert to python 3
curl -X "POST" "https://conversations.messagebird.com/v1/send" \\
-H "Authorization: AccessKey YOUR-API-KEY" \\
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \\
--data '{ "to":"+31XXXXXXXXX", "from":"WHATSAPP-CHANNEL-ID", "type":"text", "content":{ "text":"Hello!" }, "reportUrl":"https://example.com/reports" }'
can anyone help me please?
I've tried the following request, but not working :
import requests
header = {"Authorization":"AccessKey YOUR-API-KEY"}
data = { "to":"+31XXXXXXXXX", "from":"WHATSAPP-CHANNEL-ID", "type":"text", "content":{"text":"Hello!" }, "reportUrl":"https://example.com/reports"}
url = 'https://conversations.messagebird.com/v1/send'
response = requests.post(url, data=data, headers=header)
print(response.text)
I'm having the error message :
<Response [400]>
{"errors":[{"code":21,"description":"JSON is not a valid format"}]}

you can use json instead of data,
requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post', json={"key": "value"})
you need dump data
requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)
thers is another question like yours.

According to their documentation, the cURL is correct and would be implemented as is in Python:
import requests
header = {
"Authorization": "AccessKey YOUR-API-KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
data = {
"to": "+31XXXXXXXXX",
"from": "WHATSAPP-CHANNEL-ID",
"type": "text",
"content": {"text":"Hello!"},
"reportUrl": "https://example.com/reports"
}
url = 'https://conversations.messagebird.com/v1/send'
response = requests.post(url, json=data, headers=header)
print(response.json())

How should this PUT curl be converted to python requests?

How can I convert this CURL PUT request to python requests:
The curl is
curl -X PUT "https://example.com" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json-patch+json" -d "{ \"userName\": \"exampleuser\", \"password\": \"examplepass\"}"
Currently got
headers = {"accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json-patch+json"}
data = {'\"userName\"': '\"exampleuser\"',
'\"password\"': '\"examplepass\"'}
response = requests.put(url=url, data=data, headers=headers)
print(response)
Currently getting a 401 response. Unfortunately, the curl converter does not recognise it.

In bash, you escaped the quotes of the json
In Python, you shouldn't need to
data = {'userName' : 'exampleuser',
'password': 'examplepass'}
Then, you're sending json, so do json=data instead of data=data

Python requests library is not working, while cURL is working

I need to retrieve a JWT (JSON Web Token) from a Microsoft API using Python (check this API documentation for Microsoft Graph)
The following Python code using the requests library does not work giving HTTP response code 400, however, the equivalent cURL command does work giving back the expected JSON containing the JWT.
Python / requests code:
tenant = "<MY_FOO_TENANT>"
token_url = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/{}/oauth2/v2.0/token".format(tenant)
http_headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
}
http_query_params = {
"client_id": "<MY_FOO_C_ID>",
"scope": "<MY_FOO_SCOPE>",
"client_secret": "<MY_FOO_C_SECRET>",
"grant_type": "client_credentials",
}
http_response = requests.post(token_url, params=http_query_params, headers=http_headers)
cURL command:
curl -v -X POST \
--data-urlencode 'client_id=<MY_FOO_C_ID>' \
--data-urlencode 'scope=<MY_FOO_SCOPE>' \
--data-urlencode 'client_secret=<MY_FOO_C_SECRET>' \
--data-urlencode 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
'https://login.microsoftonline.com/<MY_FOO_TENANT>/oauth2/v2.0/token'
From the verbose output of the requests library I can see that it is URL encoding all those HTTP query parameters, so I tend to think that should not be the problem.
what's wrong with the Python implementation?
how to make it work?

you should pass http_query_params as data instead of params. try the following code:
tenant = "<MY_FOO_TENANT>"
token_url = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/{}/oauth2/v2.0/token".format(tenant)
http_headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
}
http_body = {
"client_id": "<MY_FOO_C_ID>",
"scope": "<MY_FOO_SCOPE>",
"client_secret": "<MY_FOO_C_SECRET>",
"grant_type": "client_credentials",
}
http_response = requests.post(token_url, data=http_body, headers=http_headers)
hope this helps

CURL in Python or Django

What's the alternative of doing this, in Python?
curl -X POST \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
'https://api.mercadolibre.com/oauth/token' \
-d 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
-d 'client_id=CLIENT_ID' \
-d 'client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET'
And the JSON response is something like this:
Status code: 200 OK
{
"access_token": "TU_ACCESS_TOKEN",
"token_type": "bearer",
"expires_in": 10800,
"scope": "...",
"refresh_token": "REFRESH_TOKEN"
}
Anyone knows how can I get the access_token? Not the entire JSON, I only need the access_token.
Thanks

There appears to be a Python library for MercadoLibre which wraps all that up for you.

Something like this should work for you:
import httplib
import urllib
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("api.mercadolibre.com")
conn.request("POST", "/oauth/token", urllib.urlencode({
"grant_type": "client_credentials",
"client_id": "CLIENT_ID",
"client_secret": "CLIENT_SECRET",
}), {"accept": "application/json", "content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"})
conn.getresponse()

Look here http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ requests library is good enough.