How to Set Headers Post Requests in python

• Last modified: 31 January 2020
• Category: python libraries

in this tutorial, we'll learn how to set Headers with python Requests' library

instaling the requests library

$ pip install requests

Request Headers

response = requests.get(
    'https://api.github.com/search/repositories',
    params={'q': 'requests+language:python'},
    headers={'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3.text-match+json'},
)

# View the new `text-matches` array which provides information
# about your search term within the results
json_response = response.json()
repository = json_response['items'][0]
print(f'Text matches: {repository["text_matches"]}')