Python - Change requests params so it doesn't start by "?=" and "&" - python-requests

Question

So I have been trying to figure out how to work out things with requests.
So right now I have done something like:
url = 'www.helloworld.com'
params = {
"": page_num,
"orderBy": 'Published'
}
headers = {
'User-Agent': ('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36'
' (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.75 Safari/537.36')
}
resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params, timeout=12)
resp.raise_for_status()
print(resp.url)
and basically how it prints out now is:
www.helloworld.com/?=2&orderBy=Published
and what I wish to have is:
www.helloworld.com/2?orderBy=Published
How would I be able to change the params requests so it will end up like above?

Answer 1

Your issue is that you are trying to modify the target URL path, not the parameters. So you can't use the params parameters from requests to do that.
I suggest 2 options to do what you want:
construct the url by hand. You can do it with string concatenations for simple cases, but there are modules to do it properly: https://pypi.org/project/furl/ , https://hyperlink.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ , that are easier to use and more powerful than urllib.parse.urljoin
use apirequests which is a simple wrapper around requests: https://pypi.org/project/apirequests
Sample using apirequests:
import apirequests
client = apirequests.Client('www.helloworld.com')
resp = client.get('/2', headers=headers, params=params, timeout=12)
# note that apirequests calls "resp.raise_for_status() automatically