How can I extract a single value from a nested data structure (such as from parsing JSON)?

I just need to know how to translate that into specific code to extract the specific value, in a hard-coded way.

If you access the API again, the new data might not match the code’s expectation. You may find it useful to add some error handling. For example, use .get() to access dictionaries in the data, rather than indexing:

name = my_json.get('name') # will return None if 'name' doesn't exist

Another way is to test for a key explicitly:

if 'name' in resp_dict:
    name = resp_dict['name']
else:
    pass

However, these approaches may fail if further accesses are required. A placeholder result of None isn’t a dictionary or a list, so attempts to access it that way will fail again (with TypeError). Since "Simple is better than complex" and "it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission", the straightforward solution is to use exception handling:

try:
    creation_time = my_json['value']['queryInfo']['creationTime']
except (TypeError, KeyError):
    print("could not read the creation time!")
    # or substitute a placeholder, or raise a new exception, etc.

Here is an example of loading a single value from simple JSON data, and converting back and forth to JSON:

import json

# load the data into an element
data={"test1": "1", "test2": "2", "test3": "3"}

# dumps the json object into an element
json_str = json.dumps(data)

# load the json to a string
resp = json.loads(json_str)

# print the resp
print(resp)

# extract an element in the response
print(resp['test1'])

Try this.

Here, I fetch only statecode from the COVID API (a JSON array).

import requests

r = requests.get('https://api.covid19india.org/data.json')

x = r.json()['statewise']

for i in x:
  print(i['statecode'])

Try this:

from functools import reduce
import re


def deep_get_imps(data, key: str):
    split_keys = re.split("[\[\]]", key)
    out_data = data
    for split_key in split_keys:
        if split_key == "":
            return out_data
        elif isinstance(out_data, dict):
            out_data = out_data.get(split_key)
        elif isinstance(out_data, list):
            try:
                sub = int(split_key)
            except ValueError:
                return None
            else:
                length = len(out_data)
                out_data = out_data[sub] if -length <= sub < length else None
        else:
            return None
    return out_data


def deep_get(dictionary, keys):
    return reduce(deep_get_imps, keys.split("."), dictionary)

Then you can use it like below:

res = {
    "status": 200,
    "info": {
        "name": "Test",
        "date": "2021-06-12"
    },
    "result": [{
        "name": "test1",
        "value": 2.5
    }, {
        "name": "test2",
        "value": 1.9
    },{
        "name": "test1",
        "value": 3.1
    }]
}

>>> deep_get(res, "info")
{'name': 'Test', 'date': '2021-06-12'}
>>> deep_get(res, "info.date")
'2021-06-12'
>>> deep_get(res, "result")
[{'name': 'test1', 'value': 2.5}, {'name': 'test2', 'value': 1.9}, {'name': 'test1', 'value': 3.1}]
>>> deep_get(res, "result[2]")
{'name': 'test1', 'value': 3.1}
>>> deep_get(res, "result[-1]")
{'name': 'test1', 'value': 3.1}
>>> deep_get(res, "result[2].name")
'test1'

I would like to achieve very similar goal. From the json file I would like to get a new json file, that will include only subset of initial json file. Let me use above example.
With the provided code:

import requests

r = requests.get(‘https://api.covid19india.org/data.json’)

x = r.json()[‘statewise’]

for i in x:
print(i[‘statecode’])

I get exactly what I would like. But the output is not valid json file. It doesn’t have valid json syntax. Can you help me change the code in a way it will output valid json file.
Generated json file is attached here: Json file