I am new to python and wanted to store the recentAveragePrice inside a variable (from a string like this one)
{"assetStock":null,"sales":250694,"numberRemaining":null,"recentAveragePrice":731,"originalPrice":null,"priceDataPoints":[{"value":661,"date":"2022-08-11T05:00:00Z"},{"value":592,"date":"2022-08-10T05:00:00Z"},{"value":443,"date":"2022-08-09T05:00:00Z"}],"volumeDataPoints":[{"value":155,"date":"2022-08-11T05:00:00Z"},{"value":4595,"date":"2022-08-10T05:00:00Z"},{"value":12675,"date":"2022-08-09T05:00:00Z"},{"value":22179,"date":"2022-08-08T05:00:00Z"},{"value":15181,"date":"2022-08-07T05:00:00Z"},{"value":14541,"date":"2022-08-06T05:00:00Z"},{"value":15310,"date":"2022-08-05T05:00:00Z"},{"value":14146,"date":"2022-08-04T05:00:00Z"},{"value":13083,"date":"2022-08-03T05:00:00Z"},{"value":14460,"date":"2022-08-02T05:00:00Z"},{"value":16809,"date":"2022-08-01T05:00:00Z"},{"value":17571,"date":"2022-07-31T05:00:00Z"},{"value":23907,"date":"2022-07-30T05:00:00Z"},{"value":39007,"date":"2022-07-29T05:00:00Z"},{"value":38823,"date":"2022-07-28T05:00:00Z"}]}
My current solution is this:
var = sampleStr[78] + sampleStr[79] + sampleStr[80]
It works for the current string but if the recentAveragePrice was above 999 it would stop working and i was wondering if instead of getting a fixed number i could search for it inside the string.
Your replit code shows that you're acquiring JSON data from some website. Here's an example based on the URL that you're using. It shows how you check the response status, acquire the JSON data as a Python dictionary then print a value associated with a particular key. If the key is missing, it will print None:
import requests
(r := requests.get('https://economy.roblox.com/v1/assets/10159617728/resale-data')).raise_for_status()
jdata = r.json()
print(jdata.get('recentAveragePrice'))
Output:
640
Since this is json you should just be able to parse it and access recentAveragePrice:
import json
sample_string = '''{"assetStock":null,"sales":250694,"numberRemaining":null,"recentAveragePrice":731,"originalPrice":null,"priceDataPoints":[{"value":661,"date":"2022-08-11T05:00:00Z"},{"value":592,"date":"2022-08-10T05:00:00Z"},{"value":443,"date":"2022-08-09T05:00:00Z"}],"volumeDataPoints":[{"value":155,"date":"2022-08-11T05:00:00Z"},{"value":4595,"date":"2022-08-10T05:00:00Z"},{"value":12675,"date":"2022-08-09T05:00:00Z"},{"value":22179,"date":"2022-08-08T05:00:00Z"},{"value":15181,"date":"2022-08-07T05:00:00Z"},{"value":14541,"date":"2022-08-06T05:00:00Z"},{"value":15310,"date":"2022-08-05T05:00:00Z"},{"value":14146,"date":"2022-08-04T05:00:00Z"},{"value":13083,"date":"2022-08-03T05:00:00Z"},{"value":14460,"date":"2022-08-02T05:00:00Z"},{"value":16809,"date":"2022-08-01T05:00:00Z"},{"value":17571,"date":"2022-07-31T05:00:00Z"},{"value":23907,"date":"2022-07-30T05:00:00Z"},{"value":39007,"date":"2022-07-29T05:00:00Z"},{"value":38823,"date":"2022-07-28T05:00:00Z"}]}'''
data = json.loads(sample_string)
recent_price = data['recentAveragePrice']
print(recent_price)
outputs:
731
Your data is in a popular format called JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). It's commonly used to exchange data between different systems like a server and a client, or a Python program and JavaScript program.
Now Python doesn't use JSON per-se, but it has a data type called a dictionary that behaves very similarly to JSON. You can access elements of a dictionary as simply as:
print(my_dictionary["recentAveragePrice"])
Python has a built-in library meant specifically to handle JSON data, and it includes a function called loads() that can convert a string into a Python dictionary. We'll use that.
Finally, putting all that together, here is a more robust program to help parse your string and pick out the data you need. Dictionaries can do a lot more cool stuff, so make sure you take a look at the links above.
# import the JSON library
# specifically, we import the `loads()` function, which will convert a JSON string into a Python object
from json import loads
# let's store your string in a variable
original_string = """
{"assetStock":null,"sales":250694,"numberRemaining":null,"recentAveragePrice":731,"originalPrice":null,"priceDataPoints":[{"value":661,"date":"2022-08-11T05:00:00Z"},{"value":592,"date":"2022-08-10T05:00:00Z"},{"value":443,"date":"2022-08-09T05:00:00Z"}],"volumeDataPoints":[{"value":155,"date":"2022-08-11T05:00:00Z"},{"value":4595,"date":"2022-08-10T05:00:00Z"},{"value":12675,"date":"2022-08-09T05:00:00Z"},{"value":22179,"date":"2022-08-08T05:00:00Z"},{"value":15181,"date":"2022-08-07T05:00:00Z"},{"value":14541,"date":"2022-08-06T05:00:00Z"},{"value":15310,"date":"2022-08-05T05:00:00Z"},{"value":14146,"date":"2022-08-04T05:00:00Z"},{"value":13083,"date":"2022-08-03T05:00:00Z"},{"value":14460,"date":"2022-08-02T05:00:00Z"},{"value":16809,"date":"2022-08-01T05:00:00Z"},{"value":17571,"date":"2022-07-31T05:00:00Z"},{"value":23907,"date":"2022-07-30T05:00:00Z"},{"value":39007,"date":"2022-07-29T05:00:00Z"},{"value":38823,"date":"2022-07-28T05:00:00Z"}]}
"""
# convert the string into a dictionary object
dictionary_object = loads(original_string)
# access the element you need
print(dictionary_object["recentAveragePrice"])
Output upon running this program:
$ python exp.py
731
I am using The Guardian's API to get JSON data and now I want a specific element from the JSON data entry. How do I do that?
I am making the following GET request
url = 'http://content.guardianapis.com/search?from-date=2016-01-02&to-date=2016-01-02&order-by=newest&show-fields=all&page-size=1&api-key=API-KEY.
And now I want webTitle from the JSON data. So I am doing as follows:
response = requests.get(url)
response = response.content
response = json.loads(response)
content = response['response']['results']['webTitle']
But I am getting TypeError: string indices must be integers, not str error.
However, content = response['response']['results']works correctly.
Here is a spanshot of JSON data.
response = request.get(url).json()
content = response['response']['results'][index]['webTitle']
Edit
Yes as Sudheesh Singanamalla suggests, results is a list and you You'd have to access a given index to get corresponding webTitle
We get this error when we mistake a list with a dictionary. Seems like 'results' is actually a list with dictionary as its first item. Do the following instead.
content = response['response']['results'][0]['webTitle']
And obviously I assumed you have one item in the 'results' list only. If it has multiple items, iterate over the list.
response['response']['results'] provides you with a list of dictionaries. [{},{},...] where each dictionary contains the following in your example:
{id:'', type:'', sectionid:'', .... }
If you want the list of all the webTitle in the results you'd have to iterate over the list obtained from response['response']['results'] and select the webTitle or any other required key in the resulting dictionary. Here's an example
webTitleList = []
# Make the request for the JSON
results = response['response']['results']
for result in results:
webTitleList.append(result['webTitle'])
# Now the webTitleList contains the list of all the webTitles in the returned json
However, you can also simplify the selection of the webTitle by using list comprehension on results. There are numerous examples on StackOverflow for the same.
results is a list. Iterate over it to fetch the required value.
Ex:
for i in response['response']['results']:
print(i['webTitle'])
I'm making a python bot and the response is coming back as
JSON.
Here is a quick show of what it brings back:
[["Message","User string from here."]]
So first what I've done is, loaded the json from the python module json.
json.loads(resp)
and it brings back:
[[u"Message",u"user string from here"]]
How do I print out the Message which will return the value user string from here?
All you need to do is:
from __future__ import print_function
import json
raw_response = '[["Message","User string from here."]]'
data = json.loads(raw_response)
print(data[0][1])
json.loads converts json into the native datatypes of python. So, when you did json.loads(resp), you get back a list of lists.
You can simply iterate over the list to access whatever elements you want.
In your case, print json.loads(resp)[0][1] should suffice.
A bit lost after much research. My code below parses the JSON to a dictionary I have thought using json load
response = json.load(MSW) # -->Will take a JSON String & Turn it into a python dict
Using the iteration below I return a series like this which is fine
{u'swell': {u'components': {u'primary': {u'direction': 222.5}}}}
{u'swell': {u'components': {u'primary': {u'direction': 221.94}}}}
ourResult = response
for rs in ourResult:
print rs
But how oh how do I access the 222.5 value. The above appears to just be one long string eg response[1] and not a dictionary structure at all.
In short all I need is the numerical value (which I assume is a part of that sting) so I can test conditions in the rest of my code. Is is a dictionary? With thanks as new and lost
You have to use python syntax as follows:
>>> print response['swell']['components']['primary']['direction']
222.5
Just access the nested dictionaries, unwrapping each layer with an additional key:
for rs in ourResult:
print rs['components']['primary']['direction']
I've recently started working with JSON in python. Now I'm passing a JSON string to Python(Django) through a post request. Now I want to parse/iterate of that data. But I can't find a elegant way to parse this data, which somehow I'm pretty sure exists.
data = request.POST['postformdata']
print data
{"c1r1":"{\"Choice\":\"i1\"}","c2r1":"{\"Bool\":\"i2\"}","c1r2":"{\"Chars\":\"i3\"}"}
jdata = json.loads(data)
print jdata
{u'c1r2': u'{"Chars":"i3"}', u'c1r1': u'{"Choice":"i1"}', u'c2r1': u'{"Bool":"i2"}'}
This is what was expected. But now when I want to get the values, I start running into problems. I have to do something like
mydecoder = json.JSONDecoder()
for part in mydecoder.decode(data):
print part
# c1r2 c1r1 c2r1 ,//Was expecting values as well
I was hoping to get the value + key, instead of just the key. Now, I have to use the keys to get values using something like
print jdata[key]
How do I iterate over this data in a simpler fashion, so that I can iterate over key, values?
To iterate key and value, you can write
for key, value in jdata.iteritems():
print key, value
You can read the document here: dict.iteritems
Just for others to help. In Python3 dict.iteritems() has been renamed to dict.iter()