How to use the requests.post function in requests

def test_POST_pass(self):
        results_url = '%srecipes/%s/tasks/%s/results/' % (self.get_proxy_url(),
                self.recipe.id, self.recipe.tasks[0].id)
        response = requests.post(results_url, data=dict(result='Pass',
                path='/random/junk', score='123', message='The thing worked'))
        self.assertEquals(response.status_code, 201)
        self.assert_(response.headers['Location'].startswith(results_url),
                response.headers['Location'])
        result_id = int(posixpath.basename(response.headers['Location']))
        self.check_result(result_id, TaskResult.pass_, u'/random/junk', 123,
                u'The thing worked')

def get_token(udid):
    global token
    data = {
        'udid' : udid
    }
    res = rq.post(url_token, data=data)
    js = json.loads(res.text)
    try:
        token = js['data']['token']
        print("Game token received: " + token)
        return token
    except:
        print("Invalid udid!")
        exit(1)

content = urllib.urlopen(NG_STATUS_URI).read()
        ts = int(time.time())

        for line in content.splitlines():
            la = line.strip().split(options.ngx_out_sep)
            append_datapoint(datapoints, Render.render(la))

        for key in renders.keys():
            append_datapoint(datapoints, Render.service_stat(renders[key]))

        for key in derive_renders.keys():
            append_datapoint(datapoints, Render.service_stat(derive_renders[key]))

        if options.format == 'falcon' and options.falcon_addr != '':
            import requests
            r = requests.post(options.falcon_addr, data=json.dumps(datapoints))
            print "push to falcon result: " + r.text

        else:
            print json.dumps(datapoints, indent=4, sort_keys=True)

    except Exception as e:
        traceback.print_exc(file = sys.stderr)

    sys.stdout.flush()
    sys.stderr.flush()

Given a device hash and optionally a number of captures
        to be taken, starts vent collector for that device with the
        options specified in poseidon.config.
        '''
        try:
            payload = {
                'nic': self.mod_configuration['collector_nic'],
                'id': dev_hash,
                'interval': self.mod_configuration['collector_interval'],
                'filter': self.mod_configuration['collector_filter'],
                'iters': str(num_captures)}
            self.logger.debug('vent payload: ' + str(payload))
            vent_addr = self.mod_configuration[
                'vent_ip'] + ':' + self.mod_configuration['vent_port']
            uri = 'http://' + vent_addr + '/create'
            resp = requests.post(uri, json=payload)
            self.logger.debug('collector repsonse: ' + resp.text)
        except Exception as e:
            self.logger.debug('failed to start vent collector' + str(e))

params['deployment'] = deployment
                params['environment'] = env
                params['refs'] = yaml.safe_dump(play['vars'], default_flow_style=False)
                params['release_id'] = release_id
                params['mongo_uri'] = mongo_uri
                params['configuration'] = configuration_ref
                params['configuration_secure'] = configuration_secure_ref
                params['base_ami'] = base_amis.get(play_name, default_base)

                log.info("Need ami for {}".format(pformat(params)))
                if noop:
                    r = requests.Request('POST', abbey_url, params=params)
                    url = r.prepare().url
                    print("Would have posted: {}".format(url))
                else:
                    r = requests.post(abbey_url, params=params)

                    log.info("Sent request got {}".format(r))
                    if r.status_code != 200:
                        # Something went wrong.
                        msg = "Failed to submit request with params: {}"
                        raise Exception(msg.format(pformat(params)))

def _update_status(repo, commit, token, data):
    "Sends the status update's data using the GitHub API."

    header = {'Authorization': 'token ' + token}
    api_url = ("https://api.github.com/repos/%s/statuses/%s" %
               (repo, commit))

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        eprint("Updating status of commit", commit, "with data", data)

    try:
        # use data= instead of json= in case we're running on an older requests
        resp = requests.post(api_url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=header)
        _print_ratelimit_info(resp)
        body = resp.json()
    except JSONDecodeError:
        eprint("Expected JSON, but received:")
        eprint("---")
        eprint(resp.content)
        eprint("---")
        eprint("Retrying...")
        resp = requests.post(api_url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=header)
        body = resp.json()

    # pylint: disable=no-member
    if resp.status_code != requests.codes.created:
        if (resp.status_code == requests.codes.unprocessable
                and body is not None and 'message' in body
                and "No commit found for SHA" in body['message']):

def post_url(self, url, fields, files=[]):
            for key in files:
                files[key] = open(files[key], 'rb')
            res = requests.post(url, files=files, data=fields)

            return res.text

def converse(message):
	global CONVERSATION_WORKSPACE_ID, CONVERSATION_USERNAME, CONVERSATION_PASSWORD, CONVERSATION_VERSION
	POST_SUCCESS = 200
	url = ""
	if SOE:
		url = CONVERSATION_SOE_URL
	
	else:
		url = CONVERSATION_URL + CONVERSATION_WORKSPACE_ID + '/message?version=' + CONVERSATION_VERSION
	
	r = requests.post(url, auth=(CONVERSATION_USERNAME, CONVERSATION_PASSWORD), headers={'content-type': 'application/json'}, data=json.dumps(message))
	if r.status_code == POST_SUCCESS:
		message = r.json()
		
	return message

r = requests.post('http://web:8000/add_post/', proxies=no_proxies, data = {"seed_url": seed_url, 'post_url': get_post_url(item)})

            if r.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
                logging.info(f"New post for {seed_url}: #{i} {item}")
            else:
                logging.info(f"Status {r.status_code} for {seed_url}: #{i} {item}")

            if i > MAX_POSTS or r.status_code == requests.codes.forbidden:
                logging.info("Stopping because max count or previous post reached")
                break

        logging.info(f"Job for {seed_url} done!")

        logging.info(f"Dequeueing {seed_url}")
        r = requests.post('http://web:8000/dequeue_seed/', proxies=no_proxies, data = {"seed_url": seed_url})
        logging.info(f"Dequeue status: {r.status_code}")

    except Exception:
        logging.error("Handle seed job broke :-(", exc_info=True)
    finally:
        logging.info("Continuing...")

"buttons": [
                        {
                            "textButton": {
                                "text": "OPEN QUERY",
                                "onClick": {
                                    "openLink": {
                                        "url": "{host}/queries/{query_id}".format(host=host, query_id=query.id)
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                })

            headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=UTF-8"}
            resp = requests.post(options.get("url"), data=json_dumps(data), headers=headers, timeout=5.0)
            if resp.status_code != 200:
                logging.error("webhook send ERROR. status_code => {status}".format(status=resp.status_code))
        except Exception:
            logging.exception("webhook send ERROR.")