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I have 500 folders each containing varying numbers (ranging between 20-40) of JSON collections. I'm able to extract the contents of each folder manually and individually in Python by following answers given here and here

import os, json
path_to_json = 'C:/Users/SomeFolder'
json_files = [pos_json for pos_json in os.listdir(path_to_json) if pos_json.endswith('.json')]
#list all the files in the folder
print (json_files)

for js in json_files:
    with open(os.path.join(path_to_json, js)) as json_file:
#can only print to screen all the json files - need help saving to a tab-delimited file 
       print (json.load(json_file))

However, it would be quite laborious and obviously very tiresome considering this is must done 500 times. A faster automated approach for repetitively extracting the contents of each JSON folder into tab-delimited files would be most welcome. Thanks

Seun AJAO
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import os, json


current_directory = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

all_directories = [x[0] for x in os.walk(current_directory)]

for directory in all_directories:
    path_to_json = directory
    json_files = [pos_json for pos_json in os.listdir(path_to_json) if pos_json.endswith('.json')]
    #list all the files in the folder
    print (json_files)

    for js in json_files:
        with open(os.path.join(path_to_json, js)) as json_file:
    #can only print to screen all the json files - need help saving to a tab-delimited file 
           print (json.load(json_file))

This will find all folders where you execute this script. Then it will iterate folders and do the job. You need to copy this to where you store folders.

ahmetfteke
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