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Python: Call REST API and access the JSON results (no authentication)
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python-rest-json
# tested with Python 2.7.5
import json
import urllib2
api_url = "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users"
# API below returns an array of complex JSON objects
jsonobj = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(api_url))
# index into the array and access a sub-attribute like this:
print jsonobj[2]['company']['name']
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