Urls for Json Files in Python

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So I was reading this: Reading JSON from a file?. So the person in this question was having trouble loading the JSON file that they presumably made. But I wanted to know if it was possible to load a JSON URL such as this: http://data.consumerfinance.gov/api/views.json. If it is possible, how would you do it? Would it be as simple as json.load(http://data.consumerfinance.gov/api/views.json)? If it isn't possible what would you recommend me to read this same JSON file?

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`json.loads(requests.get(url).content)` (importing `requests` first) — Zev Averbach, Jun 21 '17 at 15:45
Or directly with requests: `requests.get(url).json()`. See the example [here](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/). — BurningKarl, Jun 21 '17 at 16:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '17 at 16:39

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import requests
requests.get('http://data.consumerfinance.gov/api/views.json').json()

You'll need to have the requests library installed.

answered Jun 21 '17 at 16:39

ngoue

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