How to loop through JSON data using python?

Question

I'm trying to for loop through a json data and only look at "deadline_time" key. But I don't seem to know how to do that!

Here's my code:

import json
from urllib.request import urlopen
with urlopen("https://fantasy.premierleague.com/api/bootstrap-static/") as response:
 source = response.read()
data = json.loads(source)
print(json.dumps(data, indent=2))
for item in data['events']['deadline_time']:
 print(item)

Here's what the API looks like:

 {
 "events": [
 {
 "id": 1,
 "name": "Gameweek 1",
 ------> "deadline_time": "2021年08月13日T17:30:00Z",
 "average_entry_score": 69,
 "finished": true,
 "data_checked": true,
 "highest_scoring_entry": 5059647,
 "deadline_time_epoch": 1628875800,
 "deadline_time_game_offset": 0,
 "highest_score": 150,
 "is_previous": true,
 "is_current": false,
 "is_next": false,
 ...

But I end up getting this error:

 File "API2.py", line 11, in <module>
 for item in data['events']['deadline_time']:
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

Answer 1

You need to loop through the events not the individual deadline time.

Replace

for item in data['events']['deadline_time']:
 print(item)

With

for item in data['events']:
 print(item['deadline_time'])

Answer 2

data['events']['deadline_time'] gives you the value of deadline_time and it's string

Replace it like this:

for item in data['events']:
 print(item['deadline_time'])

Answer 3

The right way to achieve this

for item in data['events']:
 print(item["deadline_time"])