Spaces In A Url When Using Requests And Python

I hope I can explain myself. with out making an arse of myself. I am trying to use python 3.4 to send a url to a sparkcore api. I have managed to use curl direcly from the windows

Solution 1:

URLs cannot have spaces. The curl command you are using is actually making a request to the url https://api.spark.io/v1/devices/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/led with some command line arguments (using -d)

The curl man (manual) page says this about the -d command line argument

-d, --data

(HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in the same way that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML form and presses the submit button. This will cause curl to pass the data to the server using the content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F, --form.

-d, --data is the same as --data-ascii. To post data purely binary, you should instead use the --data-binary option. To URL-encode the value of a form field you may use --data-urlencode.

If any of these options is used more than once on the same command line, the data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating &-symbol. Thus, using '-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post chunk that looks like 'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.

If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting data from a file named 'foobar' would thus be done with --data @foobar. When --data is told to read from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines will be stripped out.

So that says -d is for sending data to the URL with the POST request using the content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded

The requests documentation has a good example of how to do that using the requests library: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#more-complicated-post-requests

So for your curl command, I think this should work

import requests
payload = {'access_token': 'yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy', 'params': 'l1,HIGH'}
r = requests.post("https://api.spark.io/v1/devices/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/led", data=payload)
print(r.text)