How to send a “multipart/form-data” with requests in python?

Question

How to send a multipart/form-data with requests in python? How to send a file, I understand, but how to send the form data by this method can not understand.

Answer 1

Here is the python snippet you need to upload one large single file as multipart formdata. With NodeJs Multer middleware running on the server side.

import requests
latest_file = 'path/to/file'
url = "http://httpbin.org/apiToUpload"
files = {'fieldName': open(latest_file, 'rb')}
r = requests.put(url, files=files)

For the server side please check the multer documentation at: https://github.com/expressjs/multer here the field single('fieldName') is used to accept one single file, as in:

var upload = multer().single('fieldName');