Response' object is not subscriptable Python http post request

Question

I am trying to post a HTTP request. I have managed to get the code to work but I am struggling returning some of the result.

The result looks like this

{   "requestId" : "8317cgs1e1-36hd42-43h6be-br34r2-c70a6ege3fs5sbh",   "numberOfRequests" : 1893 } 

I am trying to get the requestId but I keep getting the error Response' object is not subscriptable

import json import requests  workingFile = 'D:\\test.json'  with open(workingFile, 'r') as fh:     data = json.load(fh)  url = 'http://jsontest' username = 'user' password = 'password123'  requestpost = requests.post(url, json=data, auth=(username, password))  print(requestpost["requestId"]) 

Answer 1

The response object contains much more information than just the payload. To get the JSON data returned by the POST request, you'll have to access response.json() as described in the example:

requestpost = requests.post(url, json=data, auth=(username, password)) response_data = requestpost.json() print(response_data["requestId"]) 

Answer 2

You should convert your response to a dict:

requestpost = requests.post(url, json=data, auth=(username, password)) res = requestpost.json() print(res["requestId"])