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MaverickD
MaverickD

Reputation: 1657

Difference between url.json() and json.loads()

I have written the following code to read sample JSON data from url,

HEADER = {"content-type": "application/josn"}

session = requests.Session()
session.verify = True
session.headers = HEADER

output = session.request("GET", "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1", timeout=30)

If I print output I get,

<Response [200]>

If I do,

output = session.request("GET", "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1", timeout=30).json()

I get actual json content,

{u'completed': False, u'userId': 1, u'id': 1, u'title': u'delectus aut autem'}

But when I do,

output = session.request("GET", "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1", timeout=30)
print(json.loads(output))

I get,

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
TypeError: expected string or buffer

Can someone please give an example to me when should I use .json() and when json.loads()?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 772

Answers (1)

Mauricio Cortazar
Mauricio Cortazar

Reputation: 4213

The .json is just a shortcut of json.loads() when the response is a json.

print(json.loads(output))

is not working because you need to get the body of the request, i think it is

print(json.loads(output.text))

Upvotes: 6

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