How to make POST request in robobrowser-python

Question

http://robobrowser.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html

I'm trying to hit an API using browser.open(myurl) and looking for a RB method similar to requests.post(url,data=data).

since robobrowser built on the top of requests and beautifulsoup so I think there must be a way to do so.

You'd normally use the form functionality to post; why do you need to post at all? — Martijn Pieters, May 19 '14 at 12:27
You mean the page uses AJAX requests from JavaScript? Use `response.session` in that case. — Martijn Pieters, May 19 '14 at 12:38

Martijn Pieters · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-19T12:45:39.337

You can re-use the requests.Session() object of a RoboBrowser object to do your own POSTs with the same cookies:

response = browser.session.post(...)

The RoboBrowser state won't be updated though; you'd have to pass the response object to the RoboBrowser._update_state() method.

browser._update_state(response)

For AJAX requests you wouldn't need to do this, however.

Take into account that future versions of the library may change how that works; it's not a documented method.

However, normally you'd post to a site because you are handling a form submit; leave that to the provided library functionality (RoboBrowser.get_form(), then RoboBrowser.submit_form()).

Yes, you would have to do so yes. Is that that big a problem? You'd have to do the same if you were to use *just* `requests`. — Martijn Pieters, May 19 '14 at 12:46

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 08 '15 at 02:56

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As of version 0.5.3, you can send POST requests like this:

browser.open(url, method='post', data=data)

And of-coarse the browser's state and session will be updated automatically.

Related resolved issue on github.

answered Jun 08 '15 at 02:56

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