JSON to pandas DataFrame

Question

What I am trying to do is extract elevation data from a google maps API along a path specified by latitude and longitude coordinates as follows:

from urllib2         


        

Answer 1

Just a new version of the accepted answer, as python3.x does not support urllib2

from requests import request
import json
from pandas.io.json import json_normalize

path1 = '42.974049,-81.205203|42.974298,-81.195755'
response=request(url='http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/elevation/json?locations='+path1+'&sensor=false', method='get')
elevations = response.json()
elevations
data = json.loads(elevations)
json_normalize(data['results'])