Parse GitLab API raw JSON for projects/groups/subgroups, filter and extract a specific field

parse-gitlab-projects.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#
# Read GitLab raw JSON and extract ssh url
#

import sys
import json

def filter_dicts(list_of_dicts, value_to_check):
    filtered_list = [item for item in list_of_dicts if not item.get(value_to_check, True)]
    return filtered_list

def extract_value(list_of_dicts, value_to_extract):
    filtered_list = [item[value_to_extract] for item in list_of_dicts if value_to_extract in item]
    return filtered_list

def main():
    input_data = sys.stdin.read()
    
    try:
        list_of_dicts = json.loads(input_data)
    except json.JSONDecodeError:
        print("Invalid input format. Expected JSON.")
        return
    
    value_to_check = "archived"
    filtered_list = filter_dicts(list_of_dicts, value_to_check)

    value_to_extract = "ssh_url_to_repo"
    filtered_list = extract_value(filtered_list, value_to_extract)

    filtered_list.sort()

    for field in filtered_list:
        print(field)    

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()