what is wrong with json response
json, python
Solution
Let me give you some advice. Using `urllib` is great and all, but you will run into a lot of trouble. So, let me save you the pain, and just lead you to `requests`. Its the best way to deal with url requests.
This short IDLE session will demonstrate:
>>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> r.headers['content-type']
'application/json; charset=utf8'
>>> r.encoding
'utf-8'
>>> r.text
u'{"type":"User"...'
>>> r.json()
{u'private_gists': 419, u'total_private_repos': 77, ...}
To install it, just go to your command prompt and `pip install requets`. requets is free and open source, and its written in pure python so the installation is simple.
Here is a video to demonstrate:
Your particular problem:
Problem
json response which is working correctly : ``` obj = urllib.urlopen("http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=Fight Club") response_str = obj.read() response_json = simplejson.loads(response_str) ``` above code making the json request which looks like : ``` { "Title":"Fight Club", "Year":"1999", "Rated":"R", "Released":"15 Oct 1999", ...... "Response":"True" } ``` so i can sleep now... but json response which is not working correctly : ``` obj = urllib.urlopen("https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/answers?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow") response_str = obj.read() response_json = simplejson.loads(response_str) ``` above code making the json request which looks like : ``` { "items": [ { "question_id": 18384375, "answer_id": 18388044, "creation_date": 1377195687, "last_activity_date": 1377195687, "score": 0, "is_accepted": false, "owner": { "user_id": 1745001, "display_name": "Ed Morton", "reputation": 10453, "user_type": "registered", "profile_image": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/99a3ebae89496eb16afe453aae97f5be?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG", "link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/1745001/ed-morton" } }, { "question_id": 18387447, "answer_id": 18388040, "creation_date": 1377195667, "last_activity_date": 1377195667, "score": 0, "is_accepted": false, "owner": { "user_id": 2494429, "display_name": "kpark91", "reputation": 140, "user_type": "registered", "profile_image": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d903a03e7c5b6d9b21ff598c632de575?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG", "link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/2494429/kpark91" } } ] } ``` returns ``` JSONDecodeError at / No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0) ``` instead of using simplejson i tried json which gave following error : ``` ValueError at / No JSON object could be decoded ``` what i tried and failed: I tried my questions's answers on stackoverflow having same problem but none of them gave clear cut solution although every one helped me in some way 1) i checked whether json content encoding is correct or not ``` >>obj.info() Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 2398 ``` 2) i decoded the response_str in utf-8 ``` json.loads(response_str).decode("utf-8") ``` 3) i used jsonlint to check format of json response ``` Parse error on line 1: ^ Expecting '{', '[' ``` surprisingly following link of rescued my sleep. JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) Basically i was using exact code to get json response in both cases , but whats wrong with the second json response, only difference i noticed that the structure of second json response was different from first one. please provide explanation to understand the issue.