How to do a HTTP DELETE request with Requests library

Question

I'm using the requests package for interacting with the toggl.com API.

I can perform GET and POST requests:

    payload = {'some':'data'}
    headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
    url = "https://www.toggl.com/api/v6/" + data_description + ".json"
    response = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers,auth=HTTPBasicAuth(toggl_token, 'api_token'))

but i cant seem to find a way to perform a DELETE request. Is this possible?

Solution

Use requests.delete instead of requests.post

payload = {'some':'data'}
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
url = "https://www.toggl.com/api/v6/" + data_description + ".json"

response = requests.delete(
    url, 
    data=json.dumps(payload), 
    headers=headers,
    auth=HTTPBasicAuth(toggl_token, 'api_token')
)

Comments

[VasaraBharat]

what will the "data" Parameter do in a delete request? can we have conditional delete using the "data" parameter!