HTTPS GET request & read JSON reply

Question

As the title says, I need to send a HTTPS GET request, then read the JSON reply in plain text. I prefer python, but I can use perl as well.

EDIT: Allright, so now I can get the data from the page, but the reply data is SSL encrypted, how would I decrypt it?

• Roman Bodnarchuk: urllib2 and json should do the job

Answer 1

For Perl:

use JSON; # We will use this to decode the result
use LWP::Simple; # We will use this to get the encoded data over HTTPS
use Data::Dumper; # We will use this to display the result
# Download the json data
my $encoded_json = get("https://domain.com/url");
# Decode the json data
my $result = decode_json($encoded_json);
# Show the result in readable form
print Dumper($result);

Answer 2

Python:

import json
import urllib2
data = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(url).read())

• Patrick Perini: +1, but it's worth noting that for urllib2 to handle an HTTPS request, the Python install needs to support SSL.