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Reputation:

how can I get a specific element in json with python

I want to access a specific element with python, but I can't

import json
import requests

search_book = str(input("search a book: "))
request = requests.get("https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=" + search_book)
request_text = request.text

data = request_text
print(data['items']['volumeInfo']['title'])

the mistake is:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/ddvit/Documents/programming/python/books/books.py", line 9, in print(data['items']['volumeInfo']['title']) TypeError: string indices must be integers

Thank you very much in advance :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1498

Answers (2)

Raymond Reddington
Raymond Reddington

Reputation: 1837

You taking raw text from response, use json() method instead:

import json
import requests

search_book = str(input("search a book: "))
response = requests.get("https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=" + search_book)
data = response.json()

Upvotes: 1

azro
azro

Reputation: 54148

To get the rseult as JSON you need to either load it json.loads(request.text) or retrieve directly with request.json()

Then items is an array, so you can't access the info directly,

  • you may iterate on it, then get the title

    data = request.json()
for item in data['items']:
    title = item['volumeInfo']['title']
    print(title)

  • access one directly

    print(data['items'][0]['volumeInfo']['title'])

Upvotes: 1

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