Python urllib2: Receive JSON response from url

Question

I am trying to GET a URL using Python and the response is JSON. However, when I run

import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen(\'https://api.instagram.com/v1/         


        

Answer 1

you can also get json by using requests as below:

import requests

r = requests.get('http://yoursite.com/your-json-pfile.json')
json_response = r.json()

Answer 2

import json
import urllib

url = 'http://example.com/file.json'
r = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
data = json.loads(r.read().decode(r.info().get_param('charset') or 'utf-8'))
print(data)

urllib, for Python 3.4
HTTPMessage, returned by r.info()

Answer 3

If the URL is returning valid JSON-encoded data, use the json library to decode that:

import urllib2
import json

response = urllib2.urlopen('https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/pizza/media/XXXXXX')
data = json.load(response)   
print data

Answer 4

This is another simpler solution to your question

pd.read_json(data)

where data is the str output from the following code

response = urlopen("https://data.nasa.gov/resource/y77d-th95.json")
json_data = response.read().decode('utf-8', 'replace')