Read json file as pandas dataframe?

Question

I am using python 3.6 and trying to download json file (350 MB) as pandas dataframe using the code below. However, I get the following error:

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Answer 1

Please the code below

#call the pandas library
import pandas as pd
#set the file location as URL or filepath of the json file
url = 'https://www.something.com/data.json'
#load the json data from the file to a pandas dataframe
df = pd.read_json(url, orient='columns')
#display the top 10 rows from the dataframe (this is to test only)
df.head(10)

Please review the code and modify based on your need. I have added comments to explain each line of code. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

From your code, it looks like you're loading a JSON file which has JSON data on each separate line. read_json supports a lines argument for data like this:

data_df = pd.read_json('C:/Users/Alberto/nutrients.json', lines=True)

Note
Remove lines=True if you have a single JSON object instead of individual JSON objects on each line.

Answer 3

If you open the file as binary ('rb'), you will get bytes. How about:

with open('C:/Users/Alberto/nutrients.json', 'rU') as f:

Also as noted in this answer you can also use pandas directly like:

df = pd.read_json('C:/Users/Alberto/nutrients.json', lines=True)

Answer 4

Using the json module you can parse the json into a python object, then create a dataframe from that:

import json
import pandas as pd
with open('C:/Users/Alberto/nutrients.json', 'r') as f:
    data = json.load(f)
df = pd.DataFrame(data)

Answer 5

if you want to convert it into an array of JSON objects, I think this one will do what you want

import json
data = []
with open('nutrients.json', errors='ignore') as f:
    for line in f:
        data.append(json.loads(line))
print(data[0])