I'm using the python requests module to send a RESTful GET to a server, for which I get a response in JSON. The JSON response is basically just a list of lists.
What's the best way to coerce the response to a native Python object so I can either iterate or print it out using pprint?
Since you're using requests, you should use the response's json method.
import requests response = requests.get(...) data = response.json() 
pip install requests though instead of using deb package.
data is it a list of list or a dictionary.
data mirrors the structure of the JSON it's reading. For example, if the response is: [{"a": {...}}], data is a list, with list[0] == {'a': {...}}. If the response is {"a": "b", "c": "d"}, data is a dict. Does that answer your question?>>> import requests >>> r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get') >>> r.json <bound method Response.json of <Response [200]>> >>> r.json() {'args': {}, ...}
You can use json.loads:
import json import requests response = requests.get(...) json_data = json.loads(response.text) This converts a given string into a dictionary which allows you to access your JSON data easily within your code.
Or you can use @Martijn's helpful suggestion, and the higher voted answer, response.json().
str(). On the other hand unicode data isn't bad to have around (in preparation for the future).
response.json(), as it'll do a better job of figuring out the encoding used. (Disclaimer, I wrote some of that code).
response.text()?json module. The requests.compat module is there to bridge different Python versions and requests.compat.json is the same thing as json on practically every system you’d care about.You can use the json response as dictionary directly:
import requests res = requests.get('https://reqres.in/api/users?page=2') print(f'Total users: {res.json().get("total")}') or you can hold the json content as dictionary:
json_res = res.json() and from this json_res dictionary variable, you can extract any value of your choice
json_res.get('total') json_res["total"] Attentions Because this is a dictionary, you should keep your eye on the key spelling and the case, i.e. 'total' is not the same as 'Total'
What's the best way to parse a JSON response from the requests library?
The top answers show seemingly two different ways to parse a json response into a Python object but they are essentially the same.
response.json() differs in two places:
simplejson (which is the externally maintained development version of the json library included with Python) if it's installed in your environment, but uses the built-in json if not (source). I think there used to be a performance difference between json and simplejson in the past (when Python 2 was still widely used) but there's almost no difference between the libraries anymore.response.encoding is None), then it tries to guess it and try to decode using the guessed encoding (source).So in 99.9999% of cases, response.json() and json.loads(response.text) will produce the same dictionary. It may differ if the source json has some weird encoding.
in case of not json
# pip install requests import requests r = requests.get(url) try: data = r.json() except requests.JSONDecodeError: content_type = r.headers.get('Content-Type') print(content_type) # r.encoding='utf-8' # data = r.text 