How to find a particular json value by key?

Question

There is a json like this:

{
  \"P1\": \"ss\",
  \"Id\": 1234,
  \"P2\": {
      \"P1\": \"cccc\"
  },
  \"P3\": [
      {
          \"P1\": \"aaa\"
      }
         


        

Answer 1

Using json to convert the json to Python objects and then going through recursively works best. This example does include going through lists.

import json
def get_all(myjson, key):
    if type(myjson) == str:
        myjson = json.loads(myjson)
    if type(myjson) is dict:
        for jsonkey in myjson:
            if type(myjson[jsonkey]) in (list, dict):
                get_all(myjson[jsonkey], key)
            elif jsonkey == key:
                print myjson[jsonkey]
    elif type(myjson) is list:
        for item in myjson:
            if type(item) in (list, dict):
                get_all(item, key)