POST api requests not working in python - Wikitech-l

21 Jun 2010


      Hi,
I'm trying to run action=query in Python with a POST request, but for some
reason it only works with a GET.
This works fine (GET):
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req = urllib2.Request('
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=The_Matrix&exp...
')
...
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...
f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300)
print f.read()
...full page output...
This doesn't work (POST):
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req = urllib2.Request('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php',
'action=query&titles=The_Matrix&export&format=txt')
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f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300)
print f.read()
Array
(
    [query] => Array
        (
            [normalized] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [from] => The_Matrix
                            [to] => The Matrix
                        )
)
[pages] => Array
                (
                    [30007] => Array
                        (
                            [pageid] => 30007
                            [ns] => 0
                            [title] => The Matrix
                        )
)
)
)
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance!