Querystring Array Parameters in Python using Requests

Question

I have been trying to figure out how to use python-requests to send a request that the url looks like:

http://example.com/api/add.json?name='hello'&data[]='hello'&data[]='world'

Normally I can build a dictionary and do:

data = {'name': 'hello', 'data': 'world'}
response = requests.get('http://example.com/api/add.json', params=data)

That works fine for most everything that I do. However, I have hit the url structure from above, and I am not sure how to do that in python without manually building strings. I can do that, but would rather not.

Is there something in the requests library I am missing or some python feature I am unaware of?

Also what do you even call that type of parameter so I can better google it?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22974772/querystring-array-parameters-in-python-using-requests

Answer 1

All you need to do is putting it on a list and making the key as list like string:

data = {'name': 'hello', 'data[]': ['hello', 'world']}
response = requests.get('http://example.com/api/add.json', params=data)