How to curl in Python with header, data?-CodePudding

I'm trying replace the following curl command by a Python script:

curl --request POST \
 --url https://xx.com/login \
 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 --data '{
"email": "[email protected]",
"password": "PASSWORD"
}'

Script that I tried:

import urllib.request
import json

body = {"email": "[email protected]","password": "xxx"}
myurl = "https://xx.com/login"

req = urllib.request.Request(myurl)
req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8')
jsondata = json.dumps(body)
jsondataasbytes = jsondata.encode('utf-8')   # needs to be bytes
req.add_header('Content-Length', len(jsondataasbytes))
response = urllib.request.urlopen(req, jsondataasbytes)

When I tried to run this script, it doesn't return me anything and show processed completed. Is my code logic correct? Or there is something wrong with my code?

CodePudding user response：

For HTTP and HTTPS URLs, urllib.request.urlopen function returns a http.client.HTTPResponse object. It has different attributes and methods you can use, For example,

HTTPResponse.read([amt]) - Reads and returns the response body, or up to the next amt bytes.

HTTPResponse.getheaders() - Return a list of (header, value) tuples.

HTTPResponse.status - Status code returned by server.

So in your case you could do check the status using status attribute . If it's successful read the response body using read method.

status_code = response.status
if status_code == 200: # request succeeded
    response_body = response.read() # This will be byte object
    response_body_as_string = response_body.decode('utf-8')