Access item in JSON result

Question

I am a bit confused as to how access artists name in this JSON result:

{
  \"tracks\" : {
    \"href\" : \"https://api.spotify.com/         


        

Answer 1

Defensively written, this might look something like:

artist_names = set() # using a set avoids adding the same name more than once
if 'tracks' in results and 'items' in results['tracks']:
  for item in results['tracks']['items']:
    for artist in item.get('artists', ()):
      if 'name' in artist:
        artist_names.add(artist['name'])

for name in artist_names:
  print "Found artist:", name

Answer 2

You should do items = results['tracks']['items'][0]['artists'][0]['name'](although this is technically hardcoded)

As your artist and items object are arrays (with only one, so we reference the first with [0])

Answer 3

artists is a list of dicts, because a track can have many artists. Similarly items is also a list. So for example you can do results['tracks']['items'][0]['artists'][0]['name'], but that will only get you the first artist of the first track.