Python post request, problem with posting

Question

I'm trying to write a typeform bot but I am a totally beginner so I have problems with request.post

I am trying to fill this typeform: https://typeformtutorial.typeform.com/to/aA7Vx9 by this code

import requests
token = requests.get("https://typeformtutorial.typeform.com/app/form/result/token/aA7Vx9/default")
data = {"42758279": "true",
 "42758410": "text",
 "token": token}
r = requests.post("https://typeformtutorial.typeform.com/app/form/submit/aA7Vx9", data)
print(r)

I think that something is wrong with "data" and I am not sure if I use token in a good way. Could you help me?

• Yuri Ginsburg: Can you please share with us what is the result and why do thing that there is something wrong.
• GiovaniSalazar: Try adding > data=json.dumps(data) Like this r = requests.post("typeformtutorial.typeform.com/app/form/submit/aA7Vx9", data=json.dumps(data))

Answer 1

So, first of all, you need to get another field with the token. To do that, you should pass the header 'accept': 'application/json' in your first request. In the response, you'll get the json object with the token and landed_at parameters. You should use them in the next step.

Then, the post data shoud be different from what you're passing. See the network tab in the browser's developer tools to find out the actual template. It has a structure like that:

{
 "signature": <YOUR_SIGNATURE>,
 "form_id": "aA7Vx9",
 "landed_at": <YOUR_LANDED_AT_TIME>,
 "answers": [
 {
 "field": {
 "id": "42758279",
 "type": "yes_no"
 },
 "type": "boolean",
 "boolean": True
 },
 {
 "field": {
 "id": "42758410",
 "type": "short_text"
 },
 "type": "text",
 "text": "1"
 }
 ]
}

And finally, you should convert that json to text so the server would successfully parse it.

Working example:

import requests
import json
token = json.loads(requests.post(
 "https://typeformtutorial.typeform.com/app/form/result/token/aA7Vx9/default",
 headers={'accept': 'application/json'}
).text)
signature = token['token']
landed_at = int(token['landed_at'])
data = {
 "signature": signature,
 "form_id": "aA7Vx9",
 "landed_at": landed_at,
 "answers": [
 {
 "field": {
 "id": "42758279",
 "type": "yes_no"
 },
 "type": "boolean",
 "boolean": True
 },
 {
 "field": {
 "id": "42758410",
 "type": "short_text"
 },
 "type": "text",
 "text": "1"
 }
 ]
}
json_data = json.dumps(data)
r = requests.post("https://typeformtutorial.typeform.com/app/form/submit/aA7Vx9", data=json_data)
print(r.text)

Output:

{"message":"success"}

• Alexandr Kazakov: It looks like it doesn't work now. Please tell me how to get a token from typeform now?