Python requests: get attributes from returned JSON string

Question

import requests
r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get');
r.text

returns:

u'{\n  "url": "http://httpbin.org/get",\n  "headers": {\n    "Host": "httpbin.org",\n    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, compress",\n    "Connection": "close",\n    "Accept": "*/*",\n    "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.2.1 CPython/2.7.5 Windows/7",\n    "X-Request-Id": "db302999-d07f-4dd6-8c1e-14db45d39fb0"\n  },\n  "origin": "61.228.172.190",\n  "args": {}\n}'

How can get the origin and headers/Host values?

Answer 1

What's being returned is a JSON string; you need to parse it before you can conveniently use it. Requests can do this for you if you call r.json() instead of r.text.

resp = r.json()
print resp['origin']
print resp['headers']['Host']