python-requests Sending and receiving JSON Receiving JSON in a response
Example
When a response contains valid JSON, just use the .json() method on the Response object to get the decoded result:
response = requests.get('http://example.com/')
decoded_result = response.json()
However, this does not fail gracefully; it will raise a JSONDecodeError if the response object is not JSON-parseable.
You may wish to first check the content MIME type, for more graceful error handling:
if 'application/json' in response.headers['Content-Type']:
decoded_result = response.json()
else:
non_json_result = response.data
