Python requests delete with body

I'm using the requests package for interacting with the toggl.com API.

I can perform GET and POST requests:

    payload = {'some':'data'}
    headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
    url = "https://www.toggl.com/api/v6/" + data_description + ".json"
    response = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers,auth=HTTPBasicAuth(toggl_token, 'api_token'))

but i cant seem to find a way to perform a DELETE request. Is this possible?

tkone

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asked Apr 17, 2012 at 12:57

Use requests.delete instead of requests.post

payload = {'some':'data'}
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
url = "https://www.toggl.com/api/v6/" + data_description + ".json"

response = requests.delete(
    url, 
    data=json.dumps(payload), 
    headers=headers,
    auth=HTTPBasicAuth(toggl_token, 'api_token')
)

answered Apr 17, 2012 at 13:02

Elvis D'SouzaElvis D'Souza

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import requests
url = 'url.example.ap'
headers = {
    'content-type': "multipart/form-data; boundary=---- ",
    'X-Auth-Token': ""anytoken"",
    'Cache-Control': "no-cache"
    }
r = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)
n = os.write(sys.stdout.fileno(), r.content)
print r.content == r.text

answered Sep 13, 2018 at 7:38

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❮ Requests Module

Example

Make a DELETE request to a web page, and return the response text:

import requests

x = requests.delete('https://w3schools.com/python/demopage.php')

print(x.text)

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Definition and Usage

The delete() method sends a DELETE request to the specified url.

DELETE requests are made for deleting the specified resource (file, record etc).

Syntax

requests.delete(url, args)

args means zero or more of the named arguments in the parameter table below. Example:

requests.delete(url, timeout=2.50)

Parameter Values

Return Value

The delete() method returns a requests.Response object.

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