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Created July 27, 2012 23:12
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Problem with Stack Exchange API JSON data
stack_exchange_api = 'https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1'
request_url = "{0}/users/{1}/associated".format(
stack_exchange_api, usernames['stack_exchange'])
api_request = urllib2.Request(
request_url,
headers={"Accept": "application/json"})
api_z_response = urllib2.urlopen(api_request)
from zlib import decompress, MAX_WBITS
api_response = decompress(api_z_response.read(), 16 + MAX_WBITS)
se_accounts_json = json.loads(api_response)
se_answers = 0 # Number of answers given on SE sites
pprint.pprint(se_accounts_json)
for site in se_accounts_json['items']:
se_answers += site['answer_count']
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