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Rahamath's avatar
Rahamath
6 years ago

parsing response

Hello All, I need some help on the python 3. I am getting device information in response.content. I need to display only id from it. How to parse the response.content. I am using Python 3.5 o...
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Joe_Tran
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6 years ago

CORRECTION to my last post. You'll want to iterate through 'items' list which is in the 'data' JSON-object. 

8 hours ago, Joe Tran said:

A GET for /device/devices should return a <class 'list'> object for the 'items' key in the 'data' JSON object or, as @Mike Moniz mentioned, will return 0 to n number of devices. 

So either iterate through all the devices in 'data' or if you only care about the first device, reference the 0 index of 'data' 


import requests

[...]

# use .json() method instead of .content
jsonResponse = response.json()

# Iterate through all devices in 'items'

for device in jsonResponse['data']['items']:
  deviceID = device['id']
  print('ID', str(deviceID))

# Only care about the first device in 'items'
deviceID=(jsonResponse['data']['items'][0]['id'])
print('ID', str(deviceID))