Taking user input from HTML form as a variable for Python script [duplicate]
templates/index.html
<form method="POST"> <input name="variable"> <input type="submit"></form>app.py
from flask import Flask, request, render_templateapp = Flask(__name__)@app.route('/')def my_form(): return render_template('index.html')@app.route('/', methods=['POST'])def my_form_post(): variable = request.form['variable'] return variable
I guess you have set up and endpoint to run that script, an URL mapped to a function. In that case you need to call it from the form action.
for example
@app.route('/my-function')def your_function(parameters): "code to do something awesome" return "the result of your function"So, in your form you should:
<form class="userinput" method="GET" action="/my-function"> <input type="text" placeholder="Search.."> <button type="submit"></button></form>That should do the trick.
Go to the Flask home page for more examples.