How to extract a single value from JSON response?

Question

First off, I will freely concede to being little more than a clumsy liberal arts guy who is completely self taught in this scripting thing. That said, I am attempting to get

Answer 1

using json.loads will turn your data into a python dictionary.

Dictionaries values are accessed using ['key']

resp_str = {
  "name" : "ns1:timeSeriesResponseType",
  "declaredType" : "org.cuahsi.waterml.TimeSeriesResponseType",
  "scope" : "javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement$GlobalScope",
  "value" : {
    "queryInfo" : {
      "creationTime" : 1349724919000,
      "queryURL" : "http://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/iv/",
      "criteria" : {
        "locationParam" : "[ALL:103232434]",
        "variableParam" : "[00060, 00065]"
      },
      "note" : [ {
        "value" : "[ALL:103232434]",
        "title" : "filter:sites"
      }, {
        "value" : "[mode=LATEST, modifiedSince=null]",
        "title" : "filter:timeRange"
      }, {
        "value" : "sdas01",
        "title" : "server"
      } ]
    }
  },
  "nil" : false,
  "globalScope" : true,
  "typeSubstituted" : false
}

would translate into a python diction

resp_dict = json.loads(resp_str)

resp_dict['name'] # "ns1:timeSeriesResponseType"

resp_dict['value']['queryInfo']['creationTime'] # 1349724919000

Answer 2

Extract single value from JSON response Python

Try this

import json
import sys

#load the data into an element
data={"test1" : "1", "test2" : "2", "test3" : "3"}

#dumps the json object into an element
json_str = json.dumps(data)

#load the json to a string
resp = json.loads(json_str)

#print the resp
print (resp)

#extract an element in the response
print (resp['test1'])

Answer 3

Only suggestion is to access your resp_dict via .get() for a more graceful approach that will degrade well if the data isn't as expected.

resp_dict = json.loads(resp_str)
resp_dict.get('name') # will return None if 'name' doesn't exist

You could also add some logic to test for the key if you want as well.

if 'name' in resp_dict:
    resp_dict['name']
else:
    # do something else here.