How to get attribute from Python requests API

Question

I am using python request library to interact with API.

import requests

url = "https://amazon24.p.rapidapi.com/api/product"

querystring = {"keyword":"iphone","country":"US","page":"1"}

headers = {
    'x-rapidapi-host': "amazon24.p.rapidapi.com",
    'x-rapidapi-key': "key"
    }

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, params=querystring)
print(response.text)

Response I am getting is something like this. I have only included first few lines of response as it is too long.

{"docs":[{"isBestSeller":false,"product_title":"Apple iPhone XR (64GB, (PRODUCT)RED) [Locked] + Carrier Subscription","product_main_image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YXG1bDM5L._AC_UY218_.jpg","app_sale_price":"499.00","app_sale_price_currency":"$","isPrime":true,"product_detail_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VSWLY55","product_id":"B07VSWLY55","evaluate_rate":"4.2 out of 5 stars","original_price":null},{"isBestSeller":false,"product_title":"New Apple iPhone 12 Mini (64GB, Black) Unlocked","product_main_image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71uuDYxn3XL._AC_UY218_.jpg","app_sale_price":"729.00","app_sale_price_currency":"$","isPrime":true,"product_detail_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096R76SFK","product_id":"B096R76SFK","evaluate_rate":"4.2 out of 5 stars","original_price":null}}}]}}}

My question is how can I extract attributes like "product_title" or "app_sale_price" from above response. Desperately need help. Thanks

response.json() will return a dict.

bereal
– bereal

2021-09-13 10:36:03 +00:00
Commented Sep 13, 2021 at 10:36 — bereal
– bereal, Commented Sep 13, 2021 at 10:36

fourjr · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-13 10:36:48Z

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You can convert the response to a dictionary using response.json().

Following that, you can access the various attributes such as data["docs"][0]["product_title"]

An example is as follows:

data = response.json()
for doc in data["docs"]:
    print(doc["product_title"], doc["app_sale_price"])

You can learn more about dictionaries here (official python docs) or here (w3schools)

answered Sep 13, 2021 at 10:36

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Daweo · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-13 10:36:00Z

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Your response is JSON, requests has handy method for such situation, just do

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, params=querystring)
response_data = response.json()

then response_data is python object, dict in your case and you might do for example

titles = [i.get("product_title") for i in response_data["docs"]]
print(titles)

to get titles from list of dicts present under key "docs"

answered Sep 13, 2021 at 10:36

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