Parsing HTTP Response in Python

Question

I want to manipulate the information at THIS url. I can successfully open it and read its contents. But what I really want to do is throw out all the stuff I don\'t want,

Answer 1

You can also use python's requests library instead.

import requests

url = 'http://www.quandl.com/api/v1/datasets/FRED/GDP.json'    
response = requests.get(url)    
dict = response.json()

Now you can manipulate the "dict" like a python dictionary.