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post

post is a FastAPI decorator for adding an HTTP POST path operation. It also configures response handling and the operation's OpenAPI documentation.

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Syntax

app.post(path, *, response_model=None, status_code=None, tags=None, dependencies=None, summary=None, description=None, response_description="Successful Response", responses=None, deprecated=None, operation_id=None, response_model_include=None, response_model_exclude=None, response_model_by_alias=True, response_model_exclude_unset=False, response_model_exclude_defaults=False, response_model_exclude_none=False, include_in_schema=True, response_class=Default(JSONResponse), name=None, callbacks=None, openapi_extra=None, generate_unique_id_function=Default(generate_unique_id))

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Source: FastAPI class - FastAPI. Checked 2026-11-03.