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Diego
Asked: 2020-09-01 14:02:34 +0800 CST 2020-09-01 14:02:34 +0800 CST

Traverse JSON with python requests library

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In my example I want to access all the albums that coldplay has. this is the json. I understand that with the requests library I transform it into a dictionary but I cannot access the albums but it returns the value of each position in the topalbums element https://jsoneditoronline.org/?id=c8de55785bbb400cb34c62d519e2962d

import requests
import json

r = requests.get('http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=artist.gettopalbums&artist=coldplay&api_key=a31007b9178e35854f9fa22039cb7362&format=json')
musica_dict = json.loads(r.text)

print type(musica_dict)

for item in musica_dict:
    for album in item:
        print album
json

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Your music_dict object is a dictionary, it contains a topalbums key , and if you access music_dict['topalbums'] it's also a dictionary that has two keys, album and @attr .

    musica_dict['topalbums']['album'] is a list (which you can iterate over), each element of this list is a dictionary containing the keys 'name', 'playcount', 'mbid', 'url', 'artist ', 'image' .

    So to print the information it would be as follows:

    for i in musica_dict['topalbums']['album']:
    print "Album: {}\nURL: {}".format(i['name'], i['url'])
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