[SOLVED] Python POST requests to an API with JSON data work on Requestbin, but not locally

Python POST requests to an API with JSON data work on Requestbin, but not locally

I'm making API calls to a server with Python's Requests library. Locally, I have the JSON data in a directory, all files ending with .json. I am importing a JSON file to my Python file like so:

with open("./json_payloads/data.json") as user_file:
    json_data = user_file.read()

The type json_data is String and in JSON format. When I try the API POST request, I get back a 500 error from the server.

When doing it from Requestbin, I do everything exactly the same except instead of pulling JSON from a file, I have it in Requestbin's data store. I pull it like so:

  data_store = pd.inputs["data_store"]
  json_data = data_store["json_data"]

And I get back a 200 result from the server.

Any insights on why this is not working locally? I would much rather complete this locally for later steps in the process, like when I will upload files.

Solution

json_data read from the file is of type str. Convert it to a dict using json.loads before sending it with a request.

import json
json_data = json.loads(json_data)