GET API call returns non-text content

Question

I am making an API call and reading the response in JSON

r = requests.get(query_url, headers=headers)
pprint(r.json())

But the 'content' is not in text format

'content': 'CmRlbGV0ZSBmcm9tICB7eyBwYXJhbXMuY3VyYXRlZF9kYXRhYmFzZV9uYW1l\n'
           'IH19LmNybS5BRkZJTElBVEVfUFJJQ0lORzsKCklOU0VSVCBJTlRPICB7eyBw\n'
           'TkcKICB3aGVyZSAxID0gMQogIAogIDsKICAKICAKCg==\n'

How do I convert the 'content' to text

For full context, I am trying to download code from the GitHub repo as text to store in our Database

Does this answer your question? [How do you decode Base64 data in Python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3470546/how-do-you-decode-base64-data-in-python) — CherryDT, Feb 05 '22 at 00:59
@CherryDT , yes that helped. I can now see all the text. Thank you for pointing me to the article — reachbgk, Feb 05 '22 at 12:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '22 at 00:36

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Are you using python and in particular the requests package? If so, I think you could use r.text.

docs: https://pypi.org/project/requests/

answered Feb 05 '22 at 00:36

Cchor

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Yes, I am using python. I tried `r.text` but I get the same content – reachbgk Feb 05 '22 at 00:45
and is the endpoint really returning a json? you may check out the headers in the response or even set the content-type header in the request – Cchor Feb 05 '22 at 01:57

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 05 '22 at 12:47

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Thanks to the article @CherryDT pointed me to, I was able to get the text

import base64
r_dict = r.json()
content = r_dict['content']
base64.b64decode(content)

answered Feb 05 '22 at 12:47

reachbgk

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GET API call returns non-text content

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