Creating a JSON post request with python

Question

I am experimenting with the Rapaport Technet API, and want to hit an endpoint which expects the following JSON:

{
    "request": {
        "header": {
            "username": "my_username",
            "password": "my_password"
        },
        "body": {}
    }
}

Code:

url = 'https://technet.rapaport.com:449/HTTP/JSON/Prices/GetPriceChanges.aspx'
headers = {'username': 'my_username', 'password': 'my_password'}
r = requests.post(url, headers)

I get this response:

{
    "response": {
        "header": {
            "error_code": 1001,
            "error_message": "Invalid format"
        },
        "body": {}
    }
}

Any idea what the problem could be?

Answer 1

According to this example from Rapaport Technet API docs, that whole JSON is sent to be as data in the POST request. So simply do the same as given here in Requests docs.

json_data = {
    "request": {
        "header": {
            "username": "my_username",
            "password": "my_password"
        },
        "body": {}
    }
}
r = requests.post(url, json=json_data)