JSON–from the web to Python
Wow, congrats! You've just queried your first API programmatically in Python and printed the text of the response to the shell. However, as you know, your response is actually a JSON, so you can do one step better and decode the JSON. You can then print the key-value pairs of the resulting dictionary. That's what you're going to do now!
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Importing Data in Python
Exercise instructions
- Pass the variable
urlto therequests.get()function in order to send the relevant request and catch the response, assigning the resultant response message to the variabler. - Apply the
json()method to the response objectrand store the resulting dictionary in the variablejson_data. - Hit submit to print the key-value pairs of the dictionary
json_datato the shell.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Import package
import requests
# Assign URL to variable: url
url = 'http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=72bc447a&t=social+network'
# Package the request, send the request and catch the response: r
# Decode the JSON data into a dictionary: json_data
# Print each key-value pair in json_data
for k in json_data.keys():
print(k + ': ', json_data[k])