Use "byte-like object" from urlopen.read with JSON?
The content from read() is of type bytes so you need to convert it to a string before trying to decode it into a json object.
To convert bytes to a string, change your code to:urlopen('http://similarsitesearch.com/api/similar/ebay.com').read().decode("utf-8")
You need to examine the charset specified in the Content-Type header and decode by that before passing it to json.load*().
It worked well :
def myView(request): encoding = request.read().decode("utf-8") dic = json.loads(encoding) print(dic)