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How to read JSON from URL requests in python?

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How to read JSON from URL requests in python

In this exercise, you will learn how to read JSON from URL requests using Python.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, open standard, data-interchange format. It is easy to read and write for humans. It is used primarily to transmit data between a web application and a server. Today, it is more popular than XML.

In this exercise, we have imported two modules - JSON and urllib.request. The JSON module is an in-built package of Python and is used to work with JSON data. It offers a function json.loads to parse the JSON string.

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2022-05-15

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import urllib.request
import json

def getData(url):
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
    if(response.getcode()==200):
        data = response.read()
        jsonData = json.loads(data)
    else:
        print("Error occured", response.getcode())
    return jsonData

def main():
    url = "https://www.etutorialspoint.com/countries.json"
    data = getData(url)
    # print the country name and capital
    for i in data["countries"]:
         print(f'Name: {i["country"]["country_name"]}, Capital: {i["country"]["capital"]}')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

When we run the above code, the output will look like this -

Python read JSON from URL

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