How to create a GET request with parameters?

Question

By default it seems (to me) that every urlopen() with parameters seems to send a POST request. How can I set up a call to send a GET?

 import urllib import urllib2 params = urllib.urlencode(dict({'hello': 'there'})) urllib2.urlopen('http://httpbin.org/get', params) 

urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 405: METHOD NOT ALLOWED

Answer 1

you can use the same as after the request:

 import urllib import urllib2 params = urllib.urlencode({'hello':'there', 'foo': 'bar'}) urllib2.urlopen('http://somesite.com/get?' + params) 

The second argument should only be provided when making POST requests, for example, when sending the content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded .

Answer 2

The HTTP request will be POST instead of GET when a data parameter is provided. Try urllib2.urlopen('http://httpbin.org/get?hello=there')

Answer 3

If you are making a GET request, you want to pass the request string. You do this by placing the question mark '?' at the end of your URL in front of the parameters.

 import urllib import urllib2 params = urllib.urlencode(dict({'hello': 'there'})) req = urllib2.urlopen('http://httpbin.org/get/?' + params) req.read()