How to request and process JSON using python?

Question

I am trying to send a GET request to a url that I know returns data in JSON form using python.

I would like to know how to send this request to http://someurl/path/to/json , and how to parse it - preferably on a python dict.

Answer 1

For any requests with urls you can check requests . For JSON in particular:

 >>> import requests >>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json') >>> r.json() [{u'repository': {u'open_issues': 0, u'url': 'https://github.com/... 

Answer 2

The Python standard library has json and urllib2 .

 import json import urllib2 data = json.load(urllib2.urlopen('http://someurl/path/to/json'))