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

None of the provided examples on here worked for me. They were either for Python 2 (uurllib2) or those for Python 3 return the error "ImportError: No module named request". I google the error message and it apparently requires me to install a the module - which is obviously unacceptable for such a simple task.

This code worked for me:

import json,urllib
data = urllib.urlopen("https://api.github.com/users?since=0").read()
d = json.loads(data)
print (d)