Python urllib2: Receive JSON response from url

Question

I am trying to GET a URL using Python and the response is JSON. However, when I run

import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen(\'https://api.instagram.com/v1/         


        

Answer 1

you can also get json by using requests as below:

import requests

r = requests.get('http://yoursite.com/your-json-pfile.json')
json_response = r.json()