How do I get JSON data from RESTful service using Python?

Question

Is there any standard way of getting JSON data from RESTful service using Python?

I need to use kerberos for authentication.

some snippet would help.

Answer 1

I would give the requests library a try for this. Essentially just a much easier to use wrapper around the standard library modules (i.e. urllib2, httplib2, etc.) you would use for the same thing. For example, to fetch json data from a url that requires basic authentication would look like this:

import requests  response = requests.get('http://thedataishere.com',                          auth=('user', 'password')) data = response.json() 

For kerberos authentication the requests project has the reqests-kerberos library which provides a kerberos authentication class that you can use with requests:

import requests from requests_kerberos import HTTPKerberosAuth  response = requests.get('http://thedataishere.com',                          auth=HTTPKerberosAuth()) data = response.json() 

Answer 2

Something like this should work unless I'm missing the point:

import json import urllib2 json.load(urllib2.urlopen("url"))