Hi, I want to use a GET Request as such to obtain all categories in my Discourse server.
resp = requests.get(base_url + "/categories.json", headers={"Api-Key": clef_api, "Api-Username": "system"}, param={'include_subcategories': 'true'} ,auth=auth)
assert(resp.status_code == 200)
Unfortunally, as they pull the descriptions of the categories, with all the current categories, I receive a 413 HTTP error (Payload Too Large). So, I’d like to be able to opt out of pulling Categories descriptions to pull less data.
Can you help me ? thx
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pfaffman
June 29, 2022, 8:40am
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I think you need to use params and not data…
GET always has a query string and never has post data (that is why you are getting 413 payload too large, it does not expect any). When querying data from a server without making a change you’ll (almost) always use GET and not POST. So you should use params= instead of data=.
I think the docs for this specific API call are badly phrased (“Request Body schema ” really indicates POST data) so I am moving this to #bug and you don’t need to pay me anything.
import requests
import json
def get_post…
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pfaffman
June 29, 2022, 12:41pm
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Glad that did the trick! I’ve been confused by that myself. Thanks to @RGJ for his lucid explanation.
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system
July 29, 2022, 12:41pm
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