Making an HTTP request

We recommend using the popular requests HTTP client package available in Python to send HTTP requests.

No need to run pip install, just import requests at the top of your step's code and it's available for your code to use.

Making a GET request

GET requests typically are for retrieving data from an API. Below is an example.

import requests

url = 'https://swapi.dev/api/people/1'

r = requests.get(url)

# The response is logged in your Pipedream step results:
print(r.text)

# The response status code is logged in your Pipedream step results:
print(r.status)

Making a POST request

import requests

# This a POST request to this URL will echo back whatever data we send to it
url = 'https://postman-echo.com/post'

data = {"name": "Bulbasaur"}

r = requests.post(url, data)

# The response is logged in your Pipedream step results:
print(r.text)

# The response status code is logged in your Pipedream step results:
print(r.status)

Sending files

You can also send files within a step.

An example of sending a previously stored file in the workflow's /tmp directory:

# Retrieving a previously saved file from workflow storage
files = {'image': open('/tmp/python-logo.png', 'rb')}

r = requests.post(url='https://api.imgur.com/3/image', files=files)