Python urllib2 Receive JSON response from url

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I am trying to GET a URL using Python and the response is JSON  However  when I run  import urllib2 response   urllib2 urlopen  https   api instagram com v1 tags pizza media XXXXXX   html response read   print html   The html is of type str and I am expecting a JSON  Is there any way I can capture the response as JSON or a python dictionary instead of a str

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you can also get json by using requests as below   import requests  r   requests get  http   yoursite com your-json-pfile json   json response   r json

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Though I guess it has already answered I would like to add my little bit in this  import json import urllib2 class Website object       def   init   self name           self name   name      def dump self        self data  urllib2 urlopen self name       return self data      def convJSON self            data   json load self dump         print data  domain   Website  https   example com   domain convJSON     Note   object passed to json load   should support  read     therefore urllib2 urlopen self name  read   would not work   Doamin passed should be provided with protocol in this case http

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Be careful about the validation and etc  but the straight solution is this   import json the dict   json load response

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This is another simpler solution to your question  pd read json data    where data is the str output from the following code  response   urlopen  https   data nasa gov resource y77d-th95 json   json data   response read   decode  utf-8    replace

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import json import urllib  url    http   example com file json  r   urllib request urlopen url  data   json loads r read   decode r info   get param  charset   or  utf-8    print data    urllib  for Python 3 4 HTTPMessage  returned by r info

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Python 3 standard library one-liner   load urlopen url      imports  place these above the code before running it  from json import load from urllib request import urlopen url    https   jsonplaceholder typicode com todos 1

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resource url    http   localhost 8080 service   response   json loads urllib2 urlopen resource url  read

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Return JSON to webpage Adding to wonderful answer by  Sanal For Django 3 4 Adding a working url that returns a json  Source  http   www jsontest com  echo       import json import urllib  url    http   echo jsontest com insert-key-here insert-value-here key value  respons   urllib request urlopen url  data   json loads respons read   decode respons info   get param  charset   or  utf-8    return HttpResponse json dumps data   content type  application json

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None of the provided examples on here worked for me  They were either for Python 2  uurllib2  or those for Python 3 return the error  ImportError  No module named request   I google the error message and it apparently requires me to install a the module - which is obviously unacceptable for such a simple task    This code worked for me    import json urllib data   urllib urlopen  https   api github com users since 0   read   d   json loads data  print  d

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If the URL is returning valid JSON-encoded data  use the json library to decode that   import urllib2 import json  response   urllib2 urlopen  https   api instagram com v1 tags pizza media XXXXXX   data   json load response     print data

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