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Parsing JSON data if a key value is matched and print a key value in Python

I am very much new to JSON parsing. Below is my JSON:
[
{
"description": "Newton",
"exam_code": {
"date_added": "2015-05-13T04:49:54+00:00",
"description": "Production",
"exam_tags": [
{
"date_added": "2012-01-13T03:39:17+00:00",
"descriptive_name": "Production v0.1",
"id": 1,
"max_count": "147",
"name": "Production"
}
],
"id": 1,
"name": "Production",
"prefix": "SA"
},
"name": "CM"
},
{
"description": "Opera",
"exam_code": {
"date_added": "2015-05-13T04:49:54+00:00",
"description": "Production",
"test_tags": [
{
"date_added": "2012-02-22T12:44:55+00:00",
"descriptive_name": "Production v0.1",
"id": 1,
"max_count": "147",
"name": "Production"
}
],
"id": 1,
"name": "Production",
"prefix": "SA"
},
"name": "OS"
}
]
Here I am trying to find if name value is CM print description value.
If name value is OS then print description value.
Please help me to to understand how JSON parsing can be done?

Considering you have already read the JSON string from somewhere, be it a file, stdin, or any other source.
You can actually deserialize it into a Python object by doing:
import json
# ...
json_data = json.loads(json_str)
Where json_str is the JSON string that you want to parse.
In your case, json_str will get deserialized into a Python list, so you can do any operation on it as you'd normally do with a list.
Of course, this includes iterating over the elements:
for item in json_data:
if item.get('name') in ('CM', 'OS'):
print(item['description'])
As you can see, the items in json_data have been deserialized into dict, so you can access the actual fields using dict operations.
Note
You can also deserialize a JSON from the source directly, provided you have access to the file handler/descriptor or stream:
# Loading from a file
import json
with open('my_json.json', 'r') as fd:
# Note that we're using json.load, not json.loads
json_data = json.load(fd)
# Loading from stdin
import json, sys
json_data = json.load(sys.stdin)

Why is the json returned by the Advanced REST Client different than that returned by the Requests module in Python?

ARC:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-client/hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo?hl=en-US
I saved the returned json in a .json file and transformed it into a pandas dataframe using:
temp_json = pd.read_json('TempJson.json', orient='columns')
This works great.
But then I used the requests module in Python 2.7.13, specifically:
myResponse = requests.post(url, json= payload, headers = headers)
jData = json.loads(myResponse.content)
And 1) the json structure is much different than temp_json and 2) it completely wrecks my code. Any idea why?
Snippet from temp_json:
{
"expand": "schema,names",
"startAt": 0,
"maxResults": 250,
"total": 3,
"issues": [
{
"expand": "operations,editmeta,changelog,transitions,renderedFields",
"id": "1954523",
"key": "SPGC-14075",
"fields": {"summary": "QA: Build concentration support into CDC automation",
"issuetype": {
"self": "https://itec-jira.fmr.com/rest/api/2/issuetype/20",
"id": "20",
"description": "Default sub-task",
"iconUrl": "https://itec-
jira.fmr.com/images/icons/issuetypes/subtask_alternate.png",
"name": "Sub task",
"subtask": true
Sample from python json:
{
"issues": [
{
"key": "SPGC-25646",
"fields": {
"status": {
"statusCategory": {
"name": "To Do",
"self": "https://itec-jira.fmr.com/rest/api/2/statuscategory/2",
"id": 2,
"key": "new",
"colorName": "blue-gray"
},.....

json.loads will create a python dict which is hashed so the contents will be in scrambled order. Check that json.loads returns the same dict for both the request and the tempfile. If they are different then the data is different. You can use the pretty print library to help you debug deep nested json.

How to Fetch the value of any item from the JSON output in Python?

I have a function in python which is fetching the data in JSON format and I need to get the value of one item and store it in variable so I could use it another function
import requests
import json
import sys
def printResponse(r):
print '{} {}\n'.format(json.dumps(r.json(),
sort_keys=True,
indent=4,
separators=(',', ': ')), r)
r = requests.get('https://wiki.tourist.com/rest/api/content',
params={'title' : 'Release Notes for 1.1n1'},
auth=('ABCDE', '*******'))
printResponse(r)
getPageid = json.loads(r)
value = int(getPageid['results']['id'])
I am trying to get the value of id(160925) item in variable "value" so I could use it another function
Below is the JSON OUTPUT
{
"_links": {
"base": "https://wiki.tourist.com",
"context": "",
"self": "https://wiki.tourist.com/rest/api/content?title=Notes+for+1.1u1"
},
"limit": 25,
"results": [
{
"_expandable": {
"ancestors": "",
"body": "",
"children": "/rest/api/content/160925/child",
"container": "",
"descendants": "/rest/api/content/160925/descendant",
"history": "/rest/api/content/160925/history",
"metadata": "",
"operations": "",
"space": "/rest/api/space/Next",
"version": ""
},
"_links": {
"self": "https://wiki.tourist.com/rest/api/content/160925412",
"tinyui": "/x/5IaXCQ",
"webui": "/display/Next/Notes+for+1.1u1"
},
"extensions": {
"position": "none"
},
"id": "160925",
"status": "current",
"title": "Notes for 1.1u1",
"type": "page"
}
],
"size": 1,
"start": 0
} <Response [200]>

It looks like the "results" key in the JSON response corresponds to a list, so you'll want to index into that list to get a dict.
E.g. getPageid['results'][0]['id'] should return you the string value of the "id" key for the first object in the "results" list

Read specific JSON object from response in Python [duplicate]

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Accessing elements of Python dictionary by index
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When you have a JSON response that contains multiple JSON objects, how do you pull out a specific object within the JSON using Python?
For example, with the following JSON response, I have three objects in it.
{
"_links": {
"base": "REDACTED",
"context": "",
"self": "REDACTED"
},
"limit": 20,
"results": [
{
"_expandable": {
"ancestors": "",
"body": "",
"children": "",
"container": "",
"descendants": "",
"extensions": "",
"history": "/rest/api/content/198121503/history",
"metadata": "",
"operations": "",
"space": "/rest/api/space/ReleaseNotes",
"version": ""
},
"_links": {
"self": "REDACTED",
"tinyui": "/x/HxjPCw",
"webui": "UNIQUE_URL_HERE"
},
"id": "198121503",
"status": "current",
"title": "Unique Title of Content",
"type": "page"
},
{
"_expandable": {
"ancestors": "",
"body": "",
"children": "",
"container": "",
"descendants": "",
"extensions": "",
"history": "/rest/api/content/197195923/history",
"metadata": "",
"operations": "",
"space": "/rest/api/space/ReleaseNotes",
"version": ""
},
"_links": {
"self": "REDACTED",
"tinyui": "/x/k-jACw",
"webui": "UNIQUE_URL_HERE"
},
"id": "197195923",
"status": "current",
"title": "Unique Title of Content",
"type": "page"
},
{
"_expandable": {
"ancestors": "",
"body": "",
"children": "",
"container": "",
"descendants": "",
"extensions": "",
"history": "/rest/api/content/198121203/history",
"metadata": "",
"operations": "",
"space": "/rest/api/space/ReleaseNotes",
"version": ""
},
"_links": {
"self": "REDACTED",
"tinyui": "/x/8xbPCw",
"webui": "UNIQUE_URL_HERE"
},
"id": "198121203",
"status": "current",
"title": "Unique Title of Content",
"type": "page"
}
],
"size": 3,
"start": 0
}
How can I retrieve the ID and TITLE for a specific object in the response?
I read in other threads that when you use json.loads(your_json), it becomes a dictionary. If that's the case, how do I pull this data if it's stored as a dictionary?
Update
Let me clarify, as maybe I'm not seeing or explaining this clearly.
Is the only option to cycle through everything? There's not an option to say get me the 2nd JSON object and return the ID and Title? If that's the case, why shouldn't I create a custom object, store the items I want from each JSON object into those within an array, then I can access each object within the array?

After you transform your response to json, you can just use key attributes.
for result in data['results']:
print("id: {}, title: {}".format(result['id'], result['title']))
As you mentioned, you can use json.load to transform string to dictionary. But if you're using requests library, just use response.json to get data in required format.

Use bracket notation to access the keys after loading the string into a json object. Loop through the results key until you find the object you want, just like this:
j = json.loads(your_json)
for r in j["results"]:
if r["title"] == "Something":
print(r["id"])
print(r["title"])

Python .get nested Json values

I have a json file with the following example json entry:
{
"title": "Test prod",
"leafPage": true,
"type": "product",
"product": {
"title": "test product",
"offerPrice": "$19.95",
"offerPriceDetails": {
"amount": 19.95,
"text": "$19.95",
"symbol": "$"
},
"media": [
{
"link": "http://www.test.com/cool.jpg",
"primary": true,
"type": "image",
"xpath": "/html[1]/body[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]/img[1]"
}
],
"availability": true
},
"human_language": "en",
"url": "http://www.test.com"
}
I can post via python script this to my test server perfectly when I use:
"text": entry.get("title"),
"url": entry.get("url"),
"type": entry.get("type"),
However I cannot get the following nested item to upload the values, how do I structure the python json call to get a nested python json entry?
Ive tried the below without success, I need to have it as .get because there are different fields currently in the json file and it errors out without the .get call.
"Amount": entry.get("product"("offerPrice"))
Any help on how to structure the nested json entry would be very much appreciated.

You need to do:
"Amount": entry.get("product", {}).get("offerPrice")
entry.get("product", {}) returns a product dictionary (or an empty dictionary if there is no product key).