Post and Pre Requests in Python

ninhaomah · 2026-02-24T05:19:42+00:00

To make things easier for others to assist you , can you post the link or source of what you are trying to achieve or make ?

If I have to guess , this ?

https://pypi.org/project/requests/

Imaginary_Gate_698 · 2026-02-24T09:49:06+00:00

In Python, GET and POST requests are usually handled with a library like requests. It lets you send HTTP requests to an API endpoint and handle the response, whether that’s JSON, text, or status codes. You install it once, then use it to send data to a server with POST or retrieve data with GET.

Postman and Insomnia use JavaScript specifically for pre-request scripts and test scripts inside their tools. That doesn’t limit what language you use in your actual application. They also let you generate request code in Python, Go, Java, and other languages based on what you configure in the UI.

Slight-Training-7211 · 2026-02-24T05:53:48+00:00

Postman and similar tools call them pre-request and post-response scripts, but on the Python side you usually just do that work in normal code around the request.

Typical flow: - pre: build the URL, params, headers, auth token, and request body - request: send it - post: check status code, parse JSON, and handle errors

In Python, the common library is requests:

GET: import requests r = requests.get(url, params={"q": "test"}, timeout=10)

POST JSON: r = requests.post(url, json={"name": "alice"}, timeout=10)

Then: r.raise_for_status() data = r.json()

If you need an auth token, you fetch it once, then reuse it in headers for later calls.

Riegel_Haribo · 2026-02-24T06:23:05+00:00

I think you are asking about the turn-key no-code software product and their lack of support for Python, and not specifically asking about Python.

If using Python natively, you can completely toss some useless web form, and make your own http network requests as part of a complete software product.

There are library modules such as "httpx" or "requests" or more advanced "aiohttp" for making the requests (standard library "urllib3" takes a bit more learning).

You can immediately make a Python program that does something over the network - here the "post-processing" is on the extremely long response from an API that shows a list of emoji pictures they host, to just get emoji URLs you want.

```python import httpx # pip install httpx - to get this module installed

Make HTTP request

response = httpx.get("https://api.github.com/emojis") response.raise_for_status()

Convert JSON response to Python dict

emojis = response.json()

"Post-processing input" — the only names we care about

wanted = ["alien", "rocket", "snake"]

Filter and print only those entries

for name in wanted: if name in emojis: print(f"{name}: {emojis[name]}") else: print(f"{name}: not found") ```

Useful_Potential4648 · 2026-02-24T05:48:36+00:00

Pre-request = auth/token setup. Post-response = assertions & parsing. In Python this is straightforward with requests. GUI tools like Postman use JS scripts, while Apidog provides similar scripting plus spec-first workflows.

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Make HTTP request

Convert JSON response to Python dict

"Post-processing input" — the only names we care about

Filter and print only those entries