How to get JSON from webpage into Python script

Get data from the URL and then call json.loads e.g.

Python3 example:

import urllib.request, json with urllib.request.urlopen("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=google") as url:    data = json.loads(url.read().decode())    print(data)

Python2 example:

import urllib, jsonurl = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=google"response = urllib.urlopen(url)data = json.loads(response.read())print data

The output would result in something like this:

{"results" : [    {    "address_components" : [        {            "long_name" : "Charleston and Huff",            "short_name" : "Charleston and Huff",            "types" : [ "establishment", "point_of_interest" ]        },        {            "long_name" : "Mountain View",            "short_name" : "Mountain View",            "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]        },        {...

I'll take a guess that you actually want to get data from the URL:

jsonurl = urlopen(url)text = json.loads(jsonurl.read()) # <-- read from it

Or, check out JSON decoder in the requests library.

import requestsr = requests.get('someurl')print r.json() # if response type was set to JSON, then you'll automatically have a JSON response here...

This gets a dictionary in JSON format from a webpage with Python 2.X and Python 3.X:

#!/usr/bin/env pythontry:    # For Python 3.0 and later    from urllib.request import urlopenexcept ImportError:    # Fall back to Python 2's urllib2    from urllib2 import urlopenimport jsondef get_jsonparsed_data(url):    """    Receive the content of ``url``, parse it as JSON and return the object.    Parameters    ----------    url : str    Returns    -------    dict    """    response = urlopen(url)    data = response.read().decode("utf-8")    return json.loads(data)url = ("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?"       "address=googleplex&sensor=false")print(get_jsonparsed_data(url))

See also: Read and write example for JSON