How to connect HTML form to Python backend

Question

I've got an HTML email form, and I want to be able to send myself an email with the form data. Here are my current problems:

How do I extract the data from the form once it's submitted and get it into Python? How do I link my Python script to my HTML page?

If those aren't possible, how would I extract the data from the form into some kind of file? If this is done in some other language like Javascript, that's fine, just please show how in your answer.

Alaaaaa · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-20 16:32:11Z

4

are you using Flask? It is hard to tell if you do not mention the web framework you are using.

I will assume that you are using Flask, here is how you can get the posted form input

subject = request.form.get('subject')
text = request.form.get('email')

Assuming you posted JSON instead, then you can get the data like this

data = request.get_json()

PS: Remember to set the content type to application/json when submitting the request.

answered Aug 20, 2021 at 16:32

Alaaaaa

1596 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

1 Comment

MistaRen476 Over a year ago

I'm not using a web framework, I just want to be able to extract the data from the html form as some file that I can read in python

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

How to connect HTML form to Python backend

1 Answer 1

1 Comment

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

1 Comment

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related