python requests library response format

Question

I've recently starting using the requests library (which is excellent). However when I get a request response via a post method it seems to return a String(unicode) , when I check the type, even though it looks like a dictionary - which makes it more difficult to pull data from it.

Is there a way to have the json data returned in dictionary format, so I can easily extract a couple of fields?

specifically a request like:

>>> payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
>>> r = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", data=payload)
>>> print(r.text)
{
  ...
  "form": {
    "key2": "value2",
    "key1": "value1"
  },
  ...
}

r.text is a unicode string not a dictionary (even though it looks like one above)?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '15 at 17:01

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Use json method of response object.

print r.json()

answered Jan 23 '15 at 17:01

Dmitry Nedbaylo

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And after that the OP could use this post to interpret the json object as a dictionary http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19483351/converting-json-string-to-dictionary-not-list-python You could verify it and add it to your answer if you want. – kartikg3 Jan 23 '15 at 17:03

Railslide · Answer 2 · 2020-04-15T07:50:13.900

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Use Requests built-in json decoder:

r.json()

see: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/quickstart/#json-response-content

edited Apr 15 '20 at 07:50

answered Jan 23 '15 at 17:04

Railslide

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This link is unfortunately broken now. In following link is active documentation: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/quickstart/#json-response-content – Weky Apr 14 '20 at 13:53

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