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Requests and JSON

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In [1]:
import requests

Get JSON from URL

In [22]:
response = requests.get('https://api.github.com')

if response.status_code == 200:
    print('Success!')
elif response.status_code == 404:
    print('Not Found.')
Success!
In [25]:
json_response = response.json()
json_response
Out[25]:
{'current_user_url': 'https://api.github.com/user',
 'current_user_authorizations_html_url': 'https://github.com/settings/connections/applications{/client_id}',
 'authorizations_url': 'https://api.github.com/authorizations',
 'code_search_url': 'https://api.github.com/search/code?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}',
 'commit_search_url': 'https://api.github.com/search/commits?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}',
 'emails_url': 'https://api.github.com/user/emails',
 'emojis_url': 'https://api.github.com/emojis',
 'events_url': 'https://api.github.com/events',
 'feeds_url': 'https://api.github.com/feeds',
 'followers_url': 'https://api.github.com/user/followers',
 'following_url': 'https://api.github.com/user/following{/target}',
 'gists_url': 'https://api.github.com/gists{/gist_id}',
 'hub_url': 'https://api.github.com/hub',
 'issue_search_url': 'https://api.github.com/search/issues?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}',
 'issues_url': 'https://api.github.com/issues',
 'keys_url': 'https://api.github.com/user/keys',
 'notifications_url': 'https://api.github.com/notifications',
 'organization_repositories_url': 'https://api.github.com/orgs/{org}/repos{?type,page,per_page,sort}',
 'organization_url': 'https://api.github.com/orgs/{org}',
 'public_gists_url': 'https://api.github.com/gists/public',
 'rate_limit_url': 'https://api.github.com/rate_limit',
 'repository_url': 'https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}',
 'repository_search_url': 'https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}',
 'current_user_repositories_url': 'https://api.github.com/user/repos{?type,page,per_page,sort}',
 'starred_url': 'https://api.github.com/user/starred{/owner}{/repo}',
 'starred_gists_url': 'https://api.github.com/gists/starred',
 'team_url': 'https://api.github.com/teams',
 'user_url': 'https://api.github.com/users/{user}',
 'user_organizations_url': 'https://api.github.com/user/orgs',
 'user_repositories_url': 'https://api.github.com/users/{user}/repos{?type,page,per_page,sort}',
 'user_search_url': 'https://api.github.com/search/users?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}'}
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print(json_response['team_url'])
https://api.github.com/teams

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