HTTP requests and JSON parsing in Python
import urllib
import json
url = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json?origin=Chicago,IL&destination=Los+Angeles,CA&waypoints=Joplin,MO|Oklahoma+City,OK&sensor=false'
result = json.load(urllib.urlopen(url))
I recommend using the awesome requests library:
import requests
url = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json'
params = dict(
origin='Chicago,IL',
destination='Los+Angeles,CA',
waypoints='Joplin,MO|Oklahoma+City,OK',
sensor='false'
)
resp = requests.get(url=url, params=params)
data = resp.json() # Check the JSON Response Content documentation below
JSON Response Content: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/quickstart/#json-response-content
requests
has built-in .json()
method
import requests
requests.get(url).json()
The requests
Python module takes care of both retrieving JSON data and decoding it, due to its builtin JSON decoder. Here is an example taken from the module's documentation:
>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json')
>>> r.json()
[{u'repository': {u'open_issues': 0, u'url': 'https://github.com/...
So there is no use of having to use some separate module for decoding JSON.