Converting JSON response to python object

Question

I want to convert HTTP GET response (I am using requests library) to python object. Here's my code:

# Full, pure, response
response = requests.get(url)

# Getting request data/content represented in byte array
content = response.content

# Byte array to string
data = content.decode('utf8')


# This line causes "ValueError: malformed node or string: <_ast.Name object at 0x7f35068be128>"
#data = ast.literal_eval(data)

# I tried this also but data is still string after those 2 lines
data = json.dumps(data)
data = json.loads(data, object_hook=lambda d: namedtuple('X', d.keys())(*d.values()))

Could you show us how your response.text looks like, if it is a valid json object, then only you can perform dumps or loads on it @DolidodTeethtard — Devesh Kumar Singh
– Devesh Kumar Singh, Commented May 17, 2019 at 6:38

Devesh Kumar Singh · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-17 06:34:05Z

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You can get the response as a dictionary using content = response.json(), and then pass that content to json.loads directly (This is assuming your response comes as a json)

# Full, pure, response
response = requests.get(url)

# Getting response as dictionary
content = response.json()

#Loading dictionary as json
data = json.loads(content, object_hook=lambda d: namedtuple('X', d.keys())(*d.values()))

answered May 17, 2019 at 6:34

Devesh Kumar Singh

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Dolidod Teethtard Over a year ago

Your answer helped me, but respone.json() returns dict, and I needed to convert it to string with this line content = json.dumps(data)

Devesh Kumar Singh Over a year ago

You don't have that line content = json.dumps(data) in your code in the question. Instead you do data = json.dumps(data) and then data = json.loads(data,, whereas now you have your content as a dictionary, so you only need json.dumps

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