Submitting to a web form using python

Question

I have seen questions like this asked many many times but none are helpful

Im trying to submit data to a form on the web ive tried requests, and urllib and none have

Answer 1

If you want to pass q as a parameter in the URL using requests, use the params argument, not data (see Passing Parameters In URLs):

r = requests.get('http://stackoverflow.com', params=data)

This will request https://stackoverflow.com/?q=%5Bpython%5D , which isn't what you are looking for.

You really want to POST to a form. Try this:

r = requests.post('https://stackoverflow.com/search', data=data)

This is essentially the same as GET-ting https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python , but I think you'll get the idea from this.