How to parse json to get all values of a specific key within an array?

Question

I\'m having trouble trying to get a list of values from a specific key inside an json array using python. Using the JSON example below, I am trying to create a list which co

Answer 1

You cannot do contents[:]["name"] since contents is a list is a dictionary with integer indexes, and you cannot access an element from it using a string name.

To fix that, you would want to iterate over the list and get the value for key name for each item

import json
contents = []

try:
    with open("./simple.json", 'r') as f:
        contents = json.load(f)
except Exception as e:
    print(e)


li = [item.get('name') for item in contents]
print(li)

The output will be

['Bulbasaur', 'Ivysaur']