Example REST calls with python aund urllib

example_rest_calls.py

import urllib
import urllib2
import json

# GET
params = urllib.urlencode({'hi':'andre', 'foo': 'bar'})
response = urllib2.urlopen('http://httpbin.org/get?' + params)
result = json.loads(response.read())
print json.dumps(result, indent=2)


# POST
data = {'hi':'andre', 'foo': 'bar'}
req = urllib2.Request('http://httpbin.org/post')
req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
response = urllib2.urlopen(req, json.dumps(data))
result = json.loads(response.read())
print json.dumps(result, indent=2)

output.txt

{
  "origin": "194.124.249.4",
  "headers": {
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "Accept-Encoding": "identity",
    "User-Agent": "Python-urllib/2.7"
  },
  "args": {
    "hi": "andre",
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/get?hi=andre&foo=bar"
}
{
  "files": {},
  "origin": "194.124.249.4",
  "form": {},
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/post",
  "args": {},
  "headers": {
    "Content-Length": "29",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Accept-Encoding": "identity",
    "User-Agent": "Python-urllib/2.7"
  },
  "json": {
    "hi": "andre",
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  "data": "{\"hi\": \"andre\", \"foo\": \"bar\"}"
}