{"id":1297,"date":"2012-10-06T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T11:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pythonforbeginners.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:21:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T14:21:22","slug":"parse-json-objects-in-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pythonforbeginners.com\/json\/parse-json-objects-in-python","title":{"rendered":"Parse JSON objects in Python"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview<\/h2>\n

In this post we will explain how you can parse JSON objects in Python.<\/p>\n

Knowing how to parse JSON objects is useful when you want to access an API
\nfrom various web services that gives the response in JSON.<\/p>\n

Getting Started<\/h2>\n

First thing you have to do, is to find an URL to call the API.<\/p>\n

In my example, I will use the Twitter API.<\/p>\n

Start with importing the modules that we need for the program.<\/p>\n

import json\nimport urllib2\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Open the URL and the screen name.<\/p>\n
url = \"http:\/\/api.twitter.com\/1\/statuses\/user_timeline.json?screen_name=wordpress\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Print out the result<\/p>\n
print data\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Using the Twitter API to parse data<\/h2>\n
This is a very simple program, just to give you an idea of how it works.<\/p>\n
#Importing modules\nimport json\nimport urllib2\n\n# Open the URL and the screen name\nurl = \"http:\/\/api.twitter.com\/1\/statuses\/user_timeline.json?screen_name=wordpress\"\n\n# This takes a python object and dumps it to a string which is a JSON representation of that object\ndata = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url))\n\n#print the result\nprint data\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
If you are interested to see another example of how to use JSON in Python, please
\nhave a look at the “IMDB Crawler” script<\/a>.<\/p>\n
To use the Twitter API, see the official documentation on Twitter.
\nhttps:\/\/dev.twitter.com\/docs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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