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Hi, I’m trying to ping the graphql API with python and javascript and running into some parsing problems. How would I convert the <https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/flow-runs/inspection.html#graphql|following> to python using the requests package?

```query {
  flow_run(where: {name: {_eq: "woodoo-leopard"}}) {
    id
    state
    start_time
  }
}```


You mean like this?
```import requests as re

query = """query {
  flow_run(where: {name: {_eq: "..."}}) {
    id
    state
    start_time
  }
}"""


url = '<https://api.prefect.io>'
r = <http://re.post|re.post>(url, json={'query': query}, headers={"authorization": "Bearer API_KEY"})
print(r.status_code)
print(r.text)```

awesome, thanks, this works. is there a reason why this is a post request? seems to me that this would be a get request, but it could be a graphql thing im not aware of

I think all GraphQL queries are post requests