Can I extract JSON data from this XHR request?

Question

I'm a beginner trying to webscrape on the section of this site https://www.csgoroll.com/en/withdraw/csgo/p2p I'm trying to extract the prices and name of each item in the request called "graphql?operationName=TradeList&variables=" soley using the requests library in Python but i'm unsure of how to do it. I've done some research on this and it lead me to use an app called Postman and if I copy the cURL to it, it doesn't return the JSON data. Further research it looks like it uses graphql but when I connect to https://api.csgoroll.com/ the playground which I think it used to query data says server cannot be reached. So i'm wondering if it's possible to to extract the data solely using the requests library in Python and if so how?

Answer 1

It needs header User-Agent from real web browser or at least short 'Mozilla/5.0' .

requests as default uses something like python/3.x so server asks for resolving Captcha .

import requests

url = 'https://api.csgoroll.com/graphql'

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0',
#    'Accept': 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
}

params = {
    'operationName': 'TradeList',
    'variables': '{"first":50,"orderBy":"TOTAL_VALUE_DESC","status":"LISTED","steamAppName":"CSGO"}',
    'extensions': '{"persistedQuery":{"version":1,"sha256Hash":"87239fc5fa143cf0437964a20937aa558145cc8385eae48ca8734cb16abfd266"}}',
}

r = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
#print(r.text)

data = r.json()
trades = data['data']['trades']['edges']

for trade in trades:
    #print(item)
    for item in trade['node']['tradeItems']:
        print(item['marketName'])

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