Saving response from Requests to file

Question

I\'m using Requests to upload a PDF to an API. It is stored as \"response\" below. I\'m trying to write that out to Excel.

import requests

files = {\'f\': (         


        

Answer 1

As Peter already pointed out:

In [1]: import requests

In [2]: r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/events')

In [3]: type(r)
Out[3]: requests.models.Response

In [4]: type(r.content)
Out[4]: str

You may also want to check r.text.

Also: https://2.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/

Answer 2

You can use the response.text to write to a file:

import requests

files = {'f': ('1.pdf', open('1.pdf', 'rb'))}
response = requests.post("https://pdftables.com/api?&format=xlsx-single",files=files)
response.raise_for_status() # ensure we notice bad responses
file = open("resp_text.txt", "w")
file.write(response.text)
file.close()
file = open("resp_content.txt", "w")
file.write(response.text)
file.close()