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Asked: 2026-06-01T21:33:06+00:00

I am trying to POST wih curl some data. The source data is in

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I am trying to POST wih curl some data. The source data is in JSON, but I want to post with content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. I am trying to do it like this:

curl -X POST $URL --data-urlencode "@$data.json" --header "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

This is data.json:

{
  "action"      : "deploy_from_scratch_with_bundle",
  "pusher"      : { "email" : "my@email.com" },
  "ref"         : "refs/heads/master",
  "repo_choice" : "LOCAL"
}

But this is not working: urlparse.parse_qs (python) is complaining about ValueError.

The received data (before parse_qs) is:

%7B%0A%20%20%22action%22%20%20%20%20%20%20%3A%20%22deploy%5Ffrom%5Fscratch%5Fwith%5Fbundle%22%2C%0A%20%20%22pusher%22%20%20%20%20%20%20%3A%20%7B%20%22email%22%20%3A%20%22my%40email%2Ecom%22%20%7D%2C%0A%20%20%22ref%22%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3A%20%22refs%2Fheads%2Fmaster%22%2C%0A%20%20%22repo%5Fchoice%22%20%3A%20%22LOCAL%22%0A%7D%0A

What am I doing wrong here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should use unquote from urllib2 to unquote that data:

    In [10]: urllib2.unquote("%7B%0A%20%20%22action%22%20%20%20%20%20%20%3A%20%22deploy%5Ffrom%5Fscratch%5Fwith%5Fbundle%22%2C%0A%20%20%22pusher%22%20%20%20%20%20%20%3A%20%7B%20%22email%22%20%3A%20%22my%40email%2Ecom%22%20%7D%2C%0A%20%20%22ref%22%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3A%20%22refs%2Fheads%2Fmaster%22%2C%0A%20%20%22repo%5Fchoice%22%20%3A%20%22LOCAL%22%0A%7D%0A")
Out[10]: '{\n  "action"      : "deploy_from_scratch_with_bundle",\n  "pusher"      : { "email" : "my@email.com" },\n  "ref"         : "refs/heads/master",\n  "repo_choice" : "LOCAL"\n}\n'
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