def test_api(url, method="GET", data=None, headers={})

main.py

import urllib.request
import urllib.parse
import json

def test_api(url, method="GET", data=None, headers={}):
    try:
        if data:
            data = json.dumps(data).encode("utf-8")

        req = urllib.request.Request(
            url=url,
            data=data,
            headers=headers,
            method=method
        )

        with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response:
            res_data = response.read().decode("utf-8")
            status_code = response.getcode()

            print(f"Status Code: {status_code}")
            print("Response:")
            print(res_data)

    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
        print(f"HTTP Error: {e.code}")
        print(e.read().decode())

    except urllib.error.URLError as e:
        print(f"URL Error: {e.reason}")


# 🔥 Example usage

# GET request
test_api("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1")

# POST request
test_api(
    "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts",
    method="POST",
    data={"title": "test", "body": "hello", "userId": 1},
    headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"}
)

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