How to send file using POST from a Python script?

Sometimes, we want to send file using POST from a Python script

In this article, we’ll look at how to send file using POST from a Python script

To send file using POST from a Python script, we can use the requests module.

For instance, we write:

import requests

with open('test1.png', 'rb') as f:
    r = requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post', files={'test1.jpg': f})

We open the file with open.

And we open the file with read permission with 'rb'.

Then we call requests.post to make a POST request.

And we set the files parameter to a dictionary containing the file to send the file as the request payload.

To send file using POST from a Python script, we can use the requests module.