import requests import json url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/files/" file = {'file': open('test.text', 'rb')} r = requests.post(url, files=file) # Print response message print(json.dumps(r.json(), indent=4)) key = r.json()['key'] url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/files/" + key + "/" r = requests.get(url) file = r.json()['file'] # Change file to bytes file = bytes(file, 'utf-8') # Write response('file') to disk with open('test2.text', 'wb') as f: f.write(file)