the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes' parsing JSON [duplicate]

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I m trying to parse github using python, but its throwing the exception

the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

def profile(request): jsonList = [] req = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/DrkSephy') jsonList.append(json.loads(req.content)) parsedData = [] userData = {} for data in jsonList: userData['name'] = data['name'] userData['blog'] = data['blog'] userData['email'] = data['email'] userData['public_gists'] = data['public_gists'] userData['public_repos'] = data['public_repos'] userData['avatar_url'] = data['avatar_url'] userData['followers'] = data['followers'] userData['following'] = data['following'] parsedData.append(userData) return HttpResponse(str(parsedData, 'utf-8'))

How to solve it, i m using python 3.5.1 and Django 1.9.6

Apart from the req.content issue, you are also using dictionaries incorrectly. You are updating the same, single dictionary each time in your loop, so in the end parsedData will have N references to one dictionary, and that dictionary will only hold the information from the last data entry. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented May 19, 2016 at 19:55
Then, you are also returning the parsedData list as a Python repr()` string. Are you sure that that is what your web server should be serving? If you want to send JSON back, you really want to use json.dumps() instead. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented May 19, 2016 at 19:56
You also added the JSON result as one element into the jsonList, then iterate over this list. Why do this at all? Why not just copy directly from the dictionary decoded from the JSON response? — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented May 19, 2016 at 20:02

Padraic Cunningham · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-19 19:43:53Z

You need to call .text, .content in python3 returns bytes:

 jsonList.append(json.loads(req.text))

But you don't need json.loads at all, you can simply call .json() directly using requests:

 jsonList.append(req.json())

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