CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
flood
flood

Reputation: 13

How to get I certain data from json?

I am trying to figure out how to get certain data from twitter after doing a request.

import requests
import json 

username = input("Twitter Lookup: ")
url =  "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/lookup.json?screen_name=" + username
page = requests.get(url, headers={"Authorization":"my auth here"})

account = (page.json())

print(account['id'])

After I do this, it gives me the error: TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

The data shown when I print(account):

Twitter Lookup: random=
[{'id': 172831776, 'id_str': '172831776', 'name': 'Random', 'screen_name': 'random', 'location': '', 'description': 'Learn something new today.'}] and so on

Is there any way to get around this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 74

Answers (2)

Gaurav Agarwal
Gaurav Agarwal

Reputation: 611

A Json Array is also a valid json object in python.

Your account object could look something like this:

[
  {
   "id": "<some_id>",
  },
  {
   "id": "<some_id>",
  }
]

In which case you should try to access:

account[0]['id']

or whatever other index you are looking for

Upvotes: 0

Ram
Ram

Reputation: 4789

You have to select the data like this.

account is a list of dictionaries, so you have to first select the dictionary and then get the id

account = [{'id': 172831776, 'id_str': '172831776', 'name': 'Random', 'screen_name': 'random', 'location': '', 'description': 'Learn something new today.'}] 

print(account[0]['id'])
print(account[0]['description'])

172831776
Learn something new today.

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions