Create CKAN dataset using CKAN API and Python Requests library

Question

I am using CKAN version 2.2 and am trying to automate dataset creation and resource upload. I seem to be unable to create a dataset using the python requests libra

Answer 1

The data you send must be JSON encoded.

From the documentation (the page you linked to):

To call the CKAN API, post a JSON dictionary in an HTTP POST request to one of CKAN’s API URLs.

In the urllib example this is performed by the following line of code:

data_string = urllib.quote(json.dumps(dataset_dict))

I think (though you should check) that the requests library will do the quoting for you - so you just need to convert your dict to JSON. Something like this should work:

r = requests.post(d_url, data=json.dumps(dataset_dict), headers=auth)