# What's the correct \`content-type\` when editing posts?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-correct-content-type-when-editing-posts/199921>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [August 10, 2021, 10:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-correct-content-type-when-editing-posts/199921 "2021-08-10T10:02:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![blake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blake/32/157322_2.png) [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-correct-content-type-when-editing-posts/199921/5 "2021-08-10T18:47:07Z")

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@pedroleaoc here is a little sample python script that demonstrates how to make authenticated requests and how to send the request data for put/post requests.

```python
# discourse-api-demo.py
import requests
from requests.structures import CaseInsensitiveDict

# Basic GET request to a public url, no headers needed.
url = "http://localhost:3000/posts/10.json"

resp = requests.get(url)

print(resp.status_code)
print(resp.content)

# GET request to a private endpoint. Authentication headers are needed.
url = "http://localhost:3000/admin/users/list/active.json"
headers = {'Api-Username': 'system', 'Api-Key': '5c1c57915e2...'}
resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(resp.status_code)
print(resp.content)

# PUT request with a request body
url = "http://localhost:3000/posts/10.json"
data = { 'raw': "Cool post, but here's an updated to the post's body", 'edit_reason': "I changed this because I can." }

resp = requests.put(url, headers=headers, json=data)
print(resp.status_code)
print(resp.content)

```

From [Quickstart — Requests 2.34.2 documentation](https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#response-content)

> Instead of encoding the `dict` yourself, you can also pass it directly using the `json` parameter (added in version 2.4.2) and it will be encoded automatically:
> 
> `url = 'https://api.github.com/some/endpoint' >>> payload = {'some': 'data'} >>> r = requests.post(url, json=payload)`
> 
> Note, the `json` parameter is ignored if either `data` or `files` is passed.
> 
> Using the `json` parameter in the request will change the `Content-Type` in the header to `application/json` .

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