import requests import json import time url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/files/" file = {'file': open('test.text', 'rb')} data = {'ttl': 2} r = requests.post(url, files=file, data=data) # Print response message print(json.dumps(r.json(), indent=4)) key = r.json()['key'] # Wait for file to expire time.sleep(3) url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/files/" + key + "/" r = requests.get(url) # Print response message print(json.dumps(r.json(), indent=4)) if r.json()['file'] is not None: 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)