Parsing JSON with Python: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str

Question

I\'m using Python to parse through some JSON data for specific values. Specifically I want to pull the following:

• author_id
• created_at
• public

Answer 1

It's exactly as the error says. fields['events'] is a list, so you can't index it with ['public']. You need to iterate through the values, each of which is a dictionary.

for event in fields['events']:
    print event['public']

Answer 2

print(fields['events'][0]['public'])

fields['events'] is a list so you need to use ['events'][0] to access the dict inside the list.

Answer 3

Insted of fields['events']['public'] it should be fields['events'][0]['public']