Parse XML from URL into python object

Question

The goodreads website has this API for accessing a user\'s \'shelves:\' https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/20990068.xml?key=nGvCqaQ6tn9w4HNpW8kquw&v=2&shelf=toread

Answer 1

xmltodict using requests

import requests
import xmltodict

url = "https://yoursite/your.xml"
response = requests.get(url)
data = xmltodict.parse(response.content)