how to POST contents of JSON file to RESTFUL API with Python using requests module

Question

Okay, I give up. I am trying to post the contents of a file that contains JSON. The contents of the file look like this:

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{
     \"id”:99999999,
              


        

Answer 1

First of all your json file does not contain valid json. as in,"id”-here the closing quotation mark is different than the opening quotation mark. And other ID fields have the same error. Make it like this "id".

now you can do it like this,

import requests
import json
with open('example.json') as json_file:
    json_data = json.load(json_file)

headers = {'Authorization' : ‘(some auth code)’, 'Accept' : 'application/json', 'Content-Type' : 'application/json'}

r = requests.post('https://api.example.com/api/dir/v1/accounts/9999999/orders', data=json.dumps(json_data), headers=headers)