Scrapy FormRequest sending JSON

Question

I am trying to create a FormRequest that can send content-type:application/json.

Here is what I try:

yield FormRequest(\"abc.someurl.com\", formdata=         


        

Answer 1

from scrapy.http import JsonRequest

class TestSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    def start_requests(self):
        data = {
            'name1': 'value1',
            'name2': 'value2',
        }
        yield JsonRequest(url='http://www.example.com/post/action', data=data)

see more: docs.scrapy.org#jsonrequest