TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

Question

I have the following, very basic code that throws; TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not \'bytes\'

import requests
import json

url = \'my         


        

Answer 1

Let requests decode it for you:

data = response.json()

This will check headers (Content-Type) and response encoding, auto-detecting how to decode the content correctly.