Django Calls With Json. Common_Unsupported_Media_Type

I'm trying to make a RESTful api call in python/django with requests.post I can get requests.get(url=url, auth=auth) to work. Similar call in the same api family for this company I

Solution 1:

You want to set the Content-Type parameter of your request to 'application/json', not the Accept parameter.

Taken from w3.org:

The Accept request-header field can be used to specify certain media types which are acceptable for the response.

Try this instead:

import json

data = {'start': 13388, 'end': 133885, 'name': 'marcus0.5'}
r = requests.post(url=url, auth=auth, data=json.dumps(data),
                  headers={'content-type': 'application/json'})

EDIT:

There is a little bit of confusion (for me as well) about when to send data as a dict or a json encoded string (ie. the result of json.dumps). There is an excellent post here that explains the problem. For a brief summary send a dict when the API requires form-encoded data, and a json encoded string when it requires json-encoded data.