Simulating ajax request with python using requests lib

Question

Why does request not download a response for this webpage?

#!/usr/bin/python

import requests

headers={ \'content-type\':\'application/x-www-fo         


        

Answer 1

Here's the smallest working example that I can come up with:

from requests import Session

session = Session()

# HEAD requests ask for *just* the headers, which is all you need to grab the
# session cookie
session.head('http://sportsbeta.ladbrokes.com/football')

response = session.post(
    url='http://sportsbeta.ladbrokes.com/view/EventDetailPageComponentController',
    data={
        'N': '4294966750',
        'form-trigger': 'moreId',
        'moreId': '156#327',
        'pageType': 'EventClass'
    },
    headers={
        'Referer': 'http://sportsbeta.ladbrokes.com/football'
    }
)

print response.text

You just weren't decoding the percent-encoded POST data properly, so # was being represented as %23 in the actual POST data (e.g. 156%23327 should've been 156#327).