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Joost Döbken
Joost Döbken

Reputation: 4075

Python read json from url

With Python 3, I want to read a JSON from url. This is what I got:

import json
import urllib.request
url_address = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json'
with urllib.request.urlopen(url_address) as url:
    data = json.loads(url.read())
print(data)

However, it gives: HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5763

Answers (3)

user7371019
user7371019

Reputation:

I prefer aiohttp, it's asynchronous. Last time I checked, urllib was blocking. This means that it will prevent other parts of the script from running while it itself is running. Here's an example for aiohttp:

import aiohttp
async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
async with session.get('https://api.github.com/users/mralexgray/repos') as resp:

    print(await resp.json())

Upvotes: 0

irakli khitarishvili
irakli khitarishvili

Reputation: 109

twitter is returning 400 code(bad request) so exception is firing. you can use try...except in your code sample and read exception body to get response json {"errors":[{"code":215,"message":"Bad Authentication data."}]}

import json
import urllib.request
from urllib.error import HTTPError


try:

    url_address ='https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json'
    with urllib.request.urlopen(url_address) as url:
        data = json.loads(url.read())
        print(data)

except HTTPError as ex:
    print(ex.read())

Upvotes: 2

Learner
Learner

Reputation: 5302

To me below code is working- in Python 2.7

import json
from urllib import urlopen
url_address = ['https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json']
for i in url_address:
    resp = urlopen(i)
    data = json.loads(resp.read())
print(data)

Output-

{u'errors': [{u'message': u'Bad Authentication data.', u'code': 215}]}

If you use requests module-

import requests
url_address = ['https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json']
for i in url_address:
    resp = requests.get(i).json()
    print resp

Output-

{u'errors': [{u'message': u'Bad Authentication data.', u'code': 215}]}

Upvotes: 2

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