Set port in requests

Question

I\'m attempting to make use of cgminer\'s API using Python. I\'m particularly interested in utilizing the requests library.

I understand how to

Answer 1

You can specify the port for the request with a colon just as you would in a browser, such as r = requests.get('http://localhost:4028'). This will block until a response is received, or until the request times out, so you don't need to worry about awaiting a response.

You can send JSON data as a POST request using the requests.post method with the data parameter, such as

import json, requests
payload = {'command': 'summary'}
r = requests.post('http://localhost:4028', data=json.dumps(payload))

Accessing the response is then possible with r.text or r.json().

Note that requests is an HTTP library - if it's not HTTP that you want then I don't believe it's possible to use requests.