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

I would usually use the requests package with the json package. The following code should be suitable for your needs:

import requests
import json

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

Output

[11008076, 
 11006915, 
 11008202,
 ...., 
 10997668,
 10999859,
 11001695]