Converting JSON object from requests.get() to dict

Question

I'm pulling a json object from a url:

import requests
r = requests.get('http://my.endpoint.com/Hardware.json')

Now I need to convert this from r.json() to a dict, so that I can insert it as a document to MongoDB (I think. I'm new to Mongo, soo).

When I try:

import json
d = json.loads(r.json())

It fails with:

TypeError: expected string or buffer

Ultimately, I just want an object type that I can pass into MongoClient().test.hosts.insert_one() as a new document, from pymongo.

Answer 1

r.json() can return a dict or a list so there's no need to convert it to JSON.

If it is a dict then insert_one() should work just fine but if it is a list then you need to use insert_many() method instead.