Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

Example – POST method

The form we used in the previous example used GET as a method. Hypothetically, if it were to use the POST method, there would be a slight difference in how the form is submitted. Instead of putting the values in the URL, you would need to build a request body instead. In the following example, the same form and search query will be structured as a POST request:

package mainimport (  "net/http"  "net/url")func main() {  data := url.Values{}  data.Set("s", "Golang")  response, err := http.PostForm("https://hub.packtpub.com/", data)    // ... Continue processing the response ...}

In Go, you build a form submission using the url.Values struct. You can use this to set the inputs of the form—s=Golang in our case—and submit it using ...