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How to run a json file in python

The goal is to open a json file or websites so that I can view earthquake data. I create a json function that use dictionary and a list but within the terminal an error appears as a invalid argument. What is the best way to open a json file using python?
import requests
`def earthquake_daily_summary():
req = requests.get("https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_day.geojson")
data = req.json() # The .json() function will convert the json data from the server to a dictionary
# Open json file
f = open('https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_day.geojson')
# returns Json oject as a dictionary
data = json.load(f)
# Iterating through the json
# list
for i in data['emp_details']:
print(i)
f.close()
print("\n=========== PROBLEM 5 TESTS ===========")
earthquake_daily_summary()`

You can immediately convert the response to json and read the data you need.
I didn't find the 'emp_details' key, so I replaced it with 'features'.
import requests
def earthquake_daily_summary():
data = requests.get("https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_day.geojson").json()
for row in data['features']:
print(row)
print("\n=========== PROBLEM 5 TESTS ===========")
earthquake_daily_summary()

Read a specific value from a json file with Python

I am getting a JSON file from a curl request and I want to read a specific value from it.
Suppose that I have a JSON file, like the following one. How can I insert the "result_count" value into a variable?
Currently, after getting the response from curl, I am writing the JSON objects into a txt file like this.
json_response = connect_to_endpoint(url, headers)
f.write(json.dumps(json_response, indent=4, sort_keys=True))

Your json_response isn't a JSON content (JSON is a formatted string), but a python dict, you can access it using the keys
res_count = json_response['meta']['result_count']

Use the json module from the python standard library.
data itself is just a python dictionary, and can be accessed as such.
import json
with open('path/to/file/filename.json') as f:
data = json.load(f)
result_count = data['meta']['result_count']

you can parse a JSON string using json.loads() method in json module.
response = connect_to_endpoint(url, headers)
json_response = json.load(response)
after that you can extract an element with specify element name in Brackets
result_count = ['meta']['result_count']

Using a text file with JSON data and use it in Tkinter

I have used an API using python, to call out to "NewsAPI" to get all the latest news that I need and I have actually save it into a text file called "NewsAPI.txt".
My code is:
import json
import requests
def newsAPI():
url = ('https://newsapi.org/v2/everything?' #API URL
'q=procurement AND tender&' #keywords on procurement AND tender
'sortBy=popularity&' #Sort them by popularity
'apiKey=***') #Personal API key
# GET
response = requests.get(url)
#storing the output into variable "results"
results = response.json()
# save the JSON output into a txt file for future usage
with open("NewsAPI.txt", "w") as text_file:
json.dump(results, text_file)
After calling json.dump, it gets saved into the "NewsAPI.txt" file as I have mentioned. But I'm having trouble putting it into a treeview in Tkinter, or am I using the wrong widget to display them?
Output data:

How to POST a tgz file in Python using urllib2

I would like to POST a .tgz file with the Python urllib2 library to a backend server. I can't use requests due to some licensing issues. There are some examples of file upload on stackoverflow but all relate to attaching a file in a form.
My code is the following but it unfortunately fails:
stats["random"] = "data"
statsFile = "mydata.json"
headersFile = "header-data.txt"
tarFile = "body.tgz"
headers = {}
#Some custom headers
headers["X-confidential"] = "Confidential"
headers["X-version"] = "2"
headers["Content-Type"] = "application/x-gtar"
#Create the json and txt files
with open(statsFile, 'w') as a, open(headersFile, 'w') as b:
json.dump(stats, a, indent=4)
for k,v in headers.items():
b.write(k+":"+v+"\n")
#Create a compressed file to send
tar = tarfile.open(tarFile, 'w:gz' )
for name in [statsFile,headersFile]:
tar.add(name)
tar.close()
#Read the binary data from the file
with open(tarFile, 'rb') as f:
content = f.read()
url = "http://www.myurl.com"
req = urllib2.Request(url, data=content, headers=headers)
response = urllib2.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout)
If I use requests, it works like a charm:
r = requests.post(url, files={tarFile: open(tarFile, 'rb')}, headers=headers)
I essentially need the equivalent of the above for urllib2. Does anybody maybe know it? I have checked the docs as well but I was not able to make it work..What am I missing?
Thanks!

Urllib/JSON request from text file

I am trying to send data from a text file to a server looking for a match to the sent data in order to get that matched data returned back to me that I store in an existing text file. If I send a list of names to the server within the script, I am fine. I however want to repeat the request and insert a text file as the names to be matched and returned. Here is my text so far:
import json
import urllib2
values = 'E:\names.txt'
url = 'https://myurl.com/get?name=values&key=##########'
response = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url))
with open('E:\data.txt', 'w') as outfile:
json.dump(response, outfile, sort_keys = True, indent = 4,ensure_ascii=False);
This code just send back a one line file showing nothing has matched. I am assuming that it is just looking at the values as the name instead of the data in the values text file.
Update Trial 1: I updated my code as per suggested below to include the urllib.urlencode suggestion. Here is my updated code:
import json
import urllib
import urllib2
file = 'E:\names.txt'
url = 'https://myurl.com/get'
values = {'name' : file,
'key' : '##########'}
data = urllib.urlencode(values)
req = urllib2.Request(url, data)
response = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(req))
with open('E:\data.txt', 'w') as outfile:
json.dump(response, outfile, sort_keys = True, indent = 4,ensure_ascii=False);
fixed traceback errors by editing url. However it is just passing "e:\names.txt" as name in the JSON request. So it seems my issue now is just trying to send the data in the names.txt file to the tuple 'names' properly. Any thoughts?

Make sure when sending parameters to server, they're encoded -- see urllib.urlencode()