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Adding multiple values for a key in a dictionary for Python

Hello I am trying to retrieve multiple indcode using the below code. However I get an error saying "cannot specify for field more than once" Can you anyone please assist?
URL = "https://data.colorado.gov/resource/cjkq-q9ih.json"
D = dict()
D["area"] = 57
D["indcode"] = 10,23,81
document = requests.get(URL, D)
print(document.request.url)
Error message received.
{
"error" : true,
"message" : "cannot specify a field more than once"
}
screenshot attached
document = requests.get(URL, D)
print(document.request.url)

Getting data with multiple indcode is impossible at that URL until web developers provide that feature. You can try with another way.
If you want to retrieve multiple indcode, just try to iterate all data in one request from https://data.colorado.gov/resource/cjkq-q9ih.json?area=57. Try this :
import requests
URL = "https://data.colorado.gov/resource/cjkq-q9ih.json"
D = dict()
D["area"] = 57
# D["indcode"] = 10,23,81
indcode = [10,23,81]
document = requests.get(URL, D)
data = document.json()
filteredData = list(filter(lambda p: int(p['indcode']) in indcode, data))
print(filteredData)

How to put a condition that only runs when there is any change in API?

Hello Community Members,
I am very new to python language and programming, currently I am working on a news API that shows the news from that API. I want this program to check and update whenever there is any update to the API. Please help what can I do to complete this.
CODE:
url = 'https://cryptopanic.com/api/v1/posts/?auth_token=<my token>&filter=hot'
html_link = requests.get(url)
datatype = html_link.json()
news_info = datatype['results']
latest_news = news_info[0]['title']
source = news_info[0]['source']['title']
print(latest_news)
I want this latest_news variable which stores the news to print whenever there is new news in the list, I have tried comparison method but still didn't find anything so far.

Does this fill your criteria? You have to run it every 5 minutes, or any time you want and you will get the latest titles.
import requests, json
old_news_info = {"news": []}
try:
old_news_info = json.load(open("old_news_info.json", "r"))
except:
pass
url = 'https://cryptopanic.com/api/v1/posts/?auth_token=<token>&filter=hot'
print("waiting for response")
html_link = requests.get(url)
datatype = html_link.json()
if datatype != {'status': 'Incomplete', 'info': 'Token not found'}:
news_info = datatype['results']
if not news_info[0] in old_news_info["news"]:
for news in news_info:
if news in old_news_info["news"]:
break
else:
old_news_info["news"].append(news)
print(news["source"]['title'])
json.dump(old_news_info, open("old_news_info.json", "w"), indent = 4)
else:
print("Token not found")

Getting wrong result from JSON - Python 3

Im working on a small project of retrieving information about books from the Google Books API using Python 3. For this i make a call to the API, read out the variables and store those in a list. For a search like "linkedin" this works perfectly. However when i enter "Google", it reads the second title from the JSON input. How can this happen?
Please find my code below (Google_Results is the class I use to initialize the variables):
import requests
def Book_Search(search_term):
parms = {"q": search_term, "maxResults": 3}
r = requests.get(url="https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes", params=parms)
print(r.url)
results = r.json()
i = 0
for result in results["items"]:
try:
isbn13 = str(result["volumeInfo"]["industryIdentifiers"][0]["identifier"])
isbn10 = str(result["volumeInfo"]["industryIdentifiers"][1]["identifier"])
title = str(result["volumeInfo"]["title"])
author = str(result["volumeInfo"]["authors"])[2:-2]
publisher = str(result["volumeInfo"]["publisher"])
published_date = str(result["volumeInfo"]["publishedDate"])
description = str(result["volumeInfo"]["description"])
pages = str(result["volumeInfo"]["pageCount"])
genre = str(result["volumeInfo"]["categories"])[2:-2]
language = str(result["volumeInfo"]["language"])
image_link = str(result["volumeInfo"]["imageLinks"]["thumbnail"])
dict = Google_Results(isbn13, isbn10, title, author, publisher, published_date, description, pages, genre,
language, image_link)
gr.append(dict)
print(gr[i].title)
i += 1
except:
pass
return
gr = []
Book_Search("Linkedin")
I am a beginner to Python, so any help would be appreciated!

It does so because there is no publisher entry in volumeInfo of the first entry, thus it raises a KeyError and your except captures it. If you're going to work with fuzzy data you have to account for the fact that it will not always have the expected structure. For simple cases you can rely on dict.get() and its default argument to return a 'valid' default entry if an entry is missing.
Also, there are a few conceptual problems with your function - it relies on a global gr which is bad design, it shadows the built-in dict type and it captures all exceptions guaranteeing that you cannot exit your code even with a SIGINT... I'd suggest you to convert it to something a bit more sane:
def book_search(search_term, max_results=3):
results = [] # a list to store the results
parms = {"q": search_term, "maxResults": max_results}
r = requests.get(url="https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes", params=parms)
try: # just in case the server doesn't return valid JSON
for result in r.json().get("items", []):
if "volumeInfo" not in result: # invalid entry - missing volumeInfo
continue
result_dict = {} # a dictionary to store our discovered fields
result = result["volumeInfo"] # all the data we're interested is in volumeInfo
isbns = result.get("industryIdentifiers", None) # capture ISBNs
if isinstance(isbns, list) and isbns:
for i, t in enumerate(("isbn10", "isbn13")):
if len(isbns) > i and isinstance(isbns[i], dict):
result_dict[t] = isbns[i].get("identifier", None)
result_dict["title"] = result.get("title", None)
authors = result.get("authors", None) # capture authors
if isinstance(authors, list) and len(authors) > 2: # you're slicing from 2
result_dict["author"] = str(authors[2:-2])
result_dict["publisher"] = result.get("publisher", None)
result_dict["published_date"] = result.get("publishedDate", None)
result_dict["description"] = result.get("description", None)
result_dict["pages"] = result.get("pageCount", None)
genres = result.get("authors", None) # capture genres
if isinstance(genres, list) and len(genres) > 2: # since you're slicing from 2
result_dict["genre"] = str(genres[2:-2])
result_dict["language"] = result.get("language", None)
result_dict["image_link"] = result.get("imageLinks", {}).get("thumbnail", None)
# make sure Google_Results accepts keyword arguments like title, author...
# and make them optional as they might not be in the returned result
gr = Google_Results(**result_dict)
results.append(gr) # add it to the results list
except ValueError:
return None # invalid response returned, you may raise an error instead
return results # return the results
Then you can easily retrieve as much info as possible for a term:
gr = book_search("Google")
And it will be far more tolerant of data omissions, provided that your Google_Results type makes most of the entries optional.

Following #Coldspeed's recommendation it became clear that missing information in the JSON file caused the exception to run. Since I only had a "pass" statement there it skipped the entire result. Therefore I will have to adapt the "Try and Except" statements so errors do get handled properly.
Thanks for the help guys!

Python complete newbie, JSON formatting

I have never used Python before but am trying to use it due to some restrictions in another (proprietary) language, to retrieve some values from a web service and return them in json format to a home automation processor. The relevant section of code below returns :
[u'Name:London', u'Mode:Auto', u'Name:Ling', u'Mode:Away']
["Name:London", "Mode:Auto", "Name:Ling", "Mode:Away"]
…which isn't valid json. I am sure this is a really dumb question but I have searched here and haven't found an answer that helps me. Apologies if I missed something obvious but can anyone tell me what I need to do to ensure the json.dumps command outputs data in the correct format?
CresData = []
for i in range(0, j):
r = requests.get('http://xxxxxx.com/WebAPI/emea/api/v1/location/installationInfo?userId=%s&includeTemperatureControlSystems=True' % UserID, headers=headers)
CresData.append("Name:" + r.json()[i]['locationInfo']['name'])
r = requests.get('http://xxxxxx.com/WebAPI/emea/api/v1/location/%s/status?includeTemperatureControlSystems=True' % r.json()[i]['locationInfo']['locationId'], headers = headers)
CresData.append('Mode:' + r.json()['gateways'][0]['temperatureControlSystems'][0]['systemModeStatus']['mode'])
Cres_json = json.dumps(CresData)
print CresData
print Cres_json

I wasn't able to test the code as the link you mentioned is not a live link but your solution should be something like this
It looks like you are looking for JSON format with key value pair. you need to pass a dict object into json.dumps() which will return you string in required JSON format.
CresData = dict()
key_str = "Location"
idx = 0
for i in range(0, j):
data = dict()
r = requests.get('http://xxxxxx.com/WebAPI/emea/api/v1/location/installationInfo?userId=%s&includeTemperatureControlSystems=True' % UserID, headers=headers)
data["Name"] = r.json()[i]['locationInfo']['name']
r = requests.get('http://xxxxxx.com/WebAPI/emea/api/v1/location/%s/status?includeTemperatureControlSystems=True' % r.json()[i]['locationInfo']['locationId'], headers = headers)
data["mode"] = r.json()['gateways'][0]['temperatureControlSystems'][0]['systemModeStatus']['mode']
CresData[key_str + str(idx)] = data
idx +=1
Cres_json = json.dumps(CresData)
print CresData
print Cres_json

Selecting values from a JSON file in Python

I am getting JIRA data using the following python code,
how do I store the response for more than one key (my example shows only one KEY but in general I get lot of data) and print only the values corresponding to total,key, customfield_12830, summary
import requests
import json
import logging
import datetime
import base64
import urllib
serverURL = 'https://jira-stability-tools.company.com/jira'
user = 'username'
password = 'password'
query = 'project = PROJECTNAME AND "Build Info" ~ BUILDNAME AND assignee=ASSIGNEENAME'
jql = '/rest/api/2/search?jql=%s' % urllib.quote(query)
response = requests.get(serverURL + jql,verify=False,auth=(user, password))
print response.json()
response.json() OUTPUT:-
http://pastebin.com/h8R4QMgB

From the the link you pasted to pastebin and from the json that I saw, its a you issues as list containing key, fields(which holds custom fields), self, id, expand.
You can simply iterate through this response and extract values for keys you want. You can go like.
data = response.json()
issues = data.get('issues', list())
x = list()
for issue in issues:
temp = {
'key': issue['key'],
'customfield': issue['fields']['customfield_12830'],
'total': issue['fields']['progress']['total']
}
x.append(temp)
print(x)
x is list of dictionaries containing the data for fields you mentioned. Let me know if I have been unclear somewhere or what I have given is not what you are looking for.
PS: It is always advisable to use dict.get('keyname', None) to get values as you can always put a default value if key is not found. For this solution I didn't do it as I just wanted to provide approach.
Update: In the comments you(OP) mentioned that it gives attributerror.Try this code
data = response.json()
issues = data.get('issues', list())
x = list()
for issue in issues:
temp = dict()
key = issue.get('key', None)
if key:
temp['key'] = key
fields = issue.get('fields', None)
if fields:
customfield = fields.get('customfield_12830', None)
temp['customfield'] = customfield
progress = fields.get('progress', None)
if progress:
total = progress.get('total', None)
temp['total'] = total
x.append(temp)
print(x)