Requests · Example Payload

Requests Post Example

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Requests Post Example is an example object payload from Requests, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

_commentrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "_comment": "Python Requests: r = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', json={'name': 'Alice'}, headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer token123'}, timeout=15)",
  "request": {
    "@context": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/requests/refs/heads/main/json-ld/requests-context.jsonld",
    "@type": "HTTPRequest",
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://httpbin.org/post",
    "headers": {
      "Authorization": "Bearer token123",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "json": {
      "name": "Alice",
      "email": "alice@example.com"
    },
    "timeout": 15,
    "verify": true
  },
  "response": {
    "@context": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/requests/refs/heads/main/json-ld/requests-context.jsonld",
    "@type": "HTTPResponse",
    "status_code": 200,
    "ok": true,
    "reason": "OK",
    "url": "https://httpbin.org/post",
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "encoding": "utf-8",
    "elapsed": 0.187,
    "json_body": {
      "json": {
        "name": "Alice",
        "email": "alice@example.com"
      },
      "url": "https://httpbin.org/post"
    }
  }
}

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