This is the URL I'm trying to use python to pull back the json data from:
This is the code (keep in mind I'm very new to learning Python):
import requests
url = 'https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?'
params = dict(
pos='all',
stats='bat',
lg='all',
qual='y',
type='8',
season='2018',
month='0',
season1='2018',
ind='0'
)
resp = requests.get(url=url, params=params)
data = resp.json()
print(data)
Am I setting this up right?
It looks like your response content is not in JSON notation, if you use print(resp.headers) you should see something like:
{
'Cache-Control': 'private',
'Content-Type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8',
'Server': 'Microsoft-IIS/10.0',
'X-AspNet-Version': '4.0.30319',
'X-Powered-By': 'ASP.NET',
'Date': 'Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:29:33 GMT',
'Content-Length': '313209'
}
As you can see the Content-Type is NOT JSON, so the decoder can't parse it. You might need to use BeautifulSoup or some other scraping solution.
