How do you output every item from a nested json response from an API in python?

Question

{
"id": 2,
"name": "Morty Smith",
"status": "Alive",
"species": "Human",
"type": "",
"gender": "Male",
"origin": {
"name": "Earth",
"url": "https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/location/1"
},
"location": {
"name": "Earth",
"url": "https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/location/20"
},
"image": "https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/character/avatar/2.jpeg",
"episode": [
"https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/episode/1",
"https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/episode/2",
// ...
],
"url": "https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/character/2",
"created": "2017-11-04T18:50:21.651Z"
}

Answer 1

You can use this:

Assuming that response is in the format you specified above

for key, value in response.items():
print("%s: %s" % (key, value))

or if you want to go deeper recursively:

def rec_print(data):
for key, value in data.items():
if isinstance(value, dict):
rec_print(value)
else:
print("%s: %s" % (key, value))

rec_print(response)

Answer 2

# PrettyPrinter
from pprint import pprint
import json

_="""{ your json
(remove the , //... in "episode", that won't parse)
}
"""
# load string, pretty print the object
pprint(json.loads(_))

If you assign the output from loads() to a variable you can also iterate using Burey's code.