Convert Python curl response.content bytes object to readable format (json, xml)

Question

I fetch some data from an api with below code

headers = {
    'Authorization': "Basic XXXXXXXXX",
    'Accept': 'application/xml',
}

resp = requests.get('https://api_request', headers=headers)

I receive a correct response from the API (code 200) but content is in bytes format so not easy to read. Printing the resp.content gives:

print(resp.content)
b'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><legalEntity xmlns="http://XXXX.io"><status>AGT_VALIDATED</status><id><code>140012</c.........

Is there a way to convert this in a easy to manipulate format so that I can extract the specific info I need?

You need to parse the xml : geeksforgeeks.org/xml-parsing-python — jdweng
– jdweng, Commented Nov 22, 2023 at 13:35
This one could help you: stackoverflow.com/questions/22366748/… — Anton Mitsev
– Anton Mitsev, Commented Nov 22, 2023 at 14:02
check out passing resp.text to xml.etree.ElementTree. See also How to read xml file using python — JonSG
– JonSG, Commented Nov 22, 2023 at 15:37
If response is JSON as suggested in the title use response.json(). — Mark Tolonen
– Mark Tolonen, Commented Nov 22, 2023 at 18:39

kenshuri · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-28 17:37:24Z

1

Thanks for your comments. Below the solution I went for.

mydict = xmltodict.parse(resp.content.decode('utf-8'))

answered Nov 28, 2023 at 17:37

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