Python requests - extracting data from response.text

Question

I have been looking around for a few days now and cannot figure this out. Basically I\'m uploading an image to a server and get an ID in return, the problem is I cannot figu

Answer 1

You are receiving JSON; you already use the response.json() method to decode that to a Python structure:

data = r.json()

You can treat data['uploaded'] as any other Python list; the content is just the one dictionary, so another dictionary key to get the id value:

data['uploaded'][0]['id']

It is safe to hardcode the index to [0] here as you know how many images you uploaded.

You could use exception handling to detect if anything unexpected was returned:

try:
    image_id = data['uploaded'][0]['id']
except (IndexError, KeyError):
    # key or index is missing, handle an unexpected response
    log.error('Unexpected response after uploading image, got %r',
              data)

or you could handle data['status']; it all depends on the exact semantics of the API you are using here.