Python 3 Get and parse JSON API

Question

How would I parse a json api response with python? I currently have this:

import urllib.request
import json

url = \'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topsto         


        

Answer 1

Version 1: (do a pip install requests before running the script)

import requests
r = requests.get(url='https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty')
print(r.json())

Version 2: (do a pip install wget before running the script)

import wget

fs = wget.download(url='https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty')
with open(fs, 'r') as f:
    content = f.read()
print(content)