Make http request that returns JSON response.
>>fileObj = urllib.urlopen("http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=Fight Club")
Get JSON response from fileObj
>>jsonData = fileObj.read()
if you print this jsonData , it will look like this.
{
"Title":"Fight Club",
"Year":"1999",
"Rated":"R",
"Released":"15 Oct 1999",
"Runtime":"2 h 19 min",
"Genre":"Drama",
"Director":"David Fincher",
"Writer":"Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls",
"Actors":"Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf",
"Plot":"An insomniac office worker looking for a way to change his life crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker and they form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more...",
"Poster":"http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjIwNTYzMzE1M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTE5Mzg3OA@@._V1_SX300.jpg",
"imdbRating":"8.9",
"imdbVotes":"727,988",
"imdbID":"tt0137523",
"Type":"movie",
"Response":"True"
}
Now you have whole JSON response , what if you are only interested in some particular response field(s) ,say 'Director' ?
Lets see how we can get particular field(s) of JSON response.
Convert json object into python dictionary
>>import simplejson
>>response_dict = simplejson.loads(jsonData)
Use json data from response_dict to get field
>>response_dict['Director']
David Fincher
So thats how you can read JSON response , by the way that was damn good movie....!!.
