How to capture HTTPS traffic from Python requests or httpx library

This tutorial will show you how to capture HTTPS traffic from Python requests or httpx library for debugging purpose.

Here is what we achieve in this tutorial:

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✅ Capture HTTP/HTTPS request response from Python code without changing any code
Works with requests and httpx library

Here is the Source code for this tutorial

Prerequisites

Python 3.12.0
requests or httpx library
Proxyman macOS (Download from Proxyman.com)

Let's start

Download Proxyman from Proxyman.com
Open Proxyman and install the certificate to your macOS Devices. You can find the certificate in Proxyman > Certificate Menu -> Install for macOS -> Follow the instruction
In Proxyman -> Setup Menu -> Automatic Setup -> Click on the "Open new Terminal" button

TIP #1: You can choose what Terminal should open. Support iTerm, Terminal, Hyper, etc.

TIP #2: If you want to use your own Terminal -> Let's open the Setup Menu -> Manual Setup -> Copy the command -> Open your Terminal and paste the command

On this terminal -> Run your python code.

If you don't have any python code, you can use the example code in the Source code

pip install requests httpx

import requests
import httpx

def make_post_request(): # The URL we're sending the POST request to
url = 'https://httpbin.org/post'

  # Sample data to send in the POST request
  data = {
      'name': 'John Doe',
      'age': 30,
      'message': 'Hello, World!'
  }

  try:
      # Make the POST request
      response = requests.post(url, json=data)

      # Ensure the request was successful
      response.raise_for_status()

      # Print the response
      print("Response Status Code:", response.status_code)
      print("
Response Content:")
      print(response.json())

  except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
      print(f"An error occurred: {e}")

def make_post_request_httpx(): # The URL we're sending the POST request to
url = 'https://httpbin.org/post'

  # Sample data to send in the POST request
  data = {
      'name': 'John Doe',
      'age': 30,
      'message': 'Hello, World!'
  }

  try:
      # Create an httpx client
      with httpx.Client() as client:
          # Make the POST request
          response = client.post(url, json=data)

          # Ensure the request was successful
          response.raise_for_status()

          # Print the response
          print("Response Status Code:", response.status_code)
          print("
Response Content:")
          print(response.json())

  except httpx.RequestError as e:
      print(f"An error occurred while making the request: {e}")
  except httpx.HTTPStatusError as e:
      print(f"HTTP Error occurred: {e}")

if **name** == "**main**":
make_post_request()
print("
Now trying with httpx:")
make_post_request_httpx()

Run: