How to read JSON data in an HTTP POST request in Django

If you are working with Django, you might have faced this issue. We use request.GET to get the data in a GET request. But if you try to do the same with request.POST it would return an empty <QueryDict: {}>.

Where did the POST data go? Why is it empty? It is because request.POST contains only the data sent from an HTML <form> element. So if need to read JSON data from the POST request you need to use json.loads(request.body).

request.body gives you a raw HTTP request body as a bytestring. You can convert into a dictionary using json.loads().