How to get the text from file to save? Using Requests and Flask - don't want to go down the file upload function.
View:
@app.route('/postit2', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def postit2():
x = request.files.getlist('textfile')
#gives empty dict: x = request.files.getlist('textfile')
with open('/home/MadMartin/datapostfiles/EFL9.txt', 'w') as f:
f.write(str(x))
return '''ok'''
as it stands, this just save an empty list
script:
import requests
import json
url = 'https://madmartin.pythonanywhere.com/postit2'
#url = 'http://httpbin.org/post'
textfile = {'file': open('why.txt', 'rb')}
response = requests.post(url, files=textfile)
response.status_code
if response.status_code == 200:
print('Success - file delivered! Raffik')
print(response.content)
else:
print('Got unexpected status code {}: {!r}'.format(response.status_code, response.headers))
note: if I use the httpbin.org/post route, it works fine, so guess there is something wrong with my route code?
a slight change has allowed me to save a representation of the file, but not the contents themselves. So, am I right in thinking that the actual file cannot be sent in this way?
@app.route('/postit2', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def postit2():
d = request.files.to_dict()
with open('/home/MadMartin/datapostfiles/EFL9.txt', 'w') as f:
f.write(str(d))
return '''ok'''
this saves:
{'file': <FileStorage: 'why.txt' (None)>}
Check out the "Processing files" section of this tutorial, I think it has the information that you need.
ok, cheers, that tutorial looks useful - I'll check it out!
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