Using requests in Python I am performing a GET, requesting a JSON file which I can later access and modify, tweak, etc. with the command solditems.json(). However I would like to save this JSON file to my computer. Looking through the requests docs I found nothing, does anybody have an easy way I can do this?
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3 Answers
You can do it just as you would without requests. Your code might look something like,
import json
import requests
solditems = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json') # (your url)
data = solditems.json()
with open('data.json', 'w') as f:
json.dump(data, f)
3 Comments
Lukasa
There's no good reason to deserialize and then re-serialize the JSON. Just write
solditems.content straight out to file.
Jared
I was under the impression OP was going to be adjusting it before writing to file. "access and modify,tweak,etc". This is just meant as an example :)
rizkidzulkarnain
just adding info : we don't need to create data.json first, because this answer will generate data.json automatically.
Based on @Lukasa's comment, this accelerates @Jared's solution :
import requests
solditems = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json') # (your url)
data = solditems.content
with open('data.json', 'wb') as f:
f.write(data)
Comments
This is also very easy with the standard library's new pathlib library. Do note that this code is purely "writing the bytes of an HTTP response to a file". It's fast, but it does no validation that the bytes you're writing are valid JSON.
import requests
import pathlib
solditems = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json') # (your url)
pathlib.Path('data.json').write_bytes(solditems.content)
