Re: How to parse json and display it in CBV.

Thanks James.

I heard of serialization in REST but I haven't played around with it. That's why I didn't know the exact terms of what I am doing.

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:44 AM, James Schneider <jrschneider83@gmail.com> wrote:

On Dec 27, 2017 1:02 PM, "tango ward" <tangoward15@gmail.com> wrote:

Follow up question. Apologies for the continuation.

I tried integrating the API from OpenDOTA https://api.opendota.com/api/heroes.

my code:

import requests

import json

url = requests.get('https://api.opendota.com/api/heroes')

res = url.json()

when I typed in 'res' in my terminal, it returns a List of dictionaries. Now, is it possible to turn this list to a dictionary? Apologies for the confusion, I am confuse as well.

The terms you are looking for are serialization (converting Python objects to JSON) and deserialization (converting JSON to Python objects). 

If you're using requests, and you can successfully run the .json() method, then you successfully converted the JSON to a native Python structure. 

In this case, you are requesting a list of heroes, so you received a list back. You'll need to find the hero you want in the list using the standard methods of working with Python lists, access that element, and then you'll have access to the dict for that hero.

There is probably a way to get a single dict for a specific hero from the API, but I'm not familiar with their API structure. You'll need to revert to their API documentation to determine the correct URL structure.

-James

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