Response.json list indices must be integers or slices, not str [SOLVED]

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Response.json list indices must be integers or slices, not str [SOLVED] - AlphaInc - Nov-13-2021

Hello everybody,

I try to get the latest commit date from GitHub by using the GitHub API. This is the code I use:

import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.github.com/repos/quietvoid/dovi_tool/commits")
print(response.json()["date"])

I hoped to get the output:

2021-11-10T03:39:47Z

But I get the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/debug.py", line 4, in <module>
    print(response.json()["date"])
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

I have a similar request for another project where I want to get the name and this works fine.
Can anyone help me?

RE: Response.json list indices must be integers or slices, not str - snippsat - Nov-13-2021

Like this,you most look at return(is now a Python dictionary) and the parse out where date is.

import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.github.com/repos/quietvoid/dovi_tool/commits")
json_resp = response.json()
#print(json_resp) # All response return
print(json_resp[0]['commit']['author']['date'])

Output:
2021-11-10T03:39:47Z

RE: Response.json list indices must be integers or slices, not str - AlphaInc - Nov-13-2021

(Nov-13-2021, 12:40 PM)snippsat Wrote: Like this,you most look at return(is now a Python dictionary) and the parse out where date is.
import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.github.com/repos/quietvoid/dovi_tool/commits")
json_resp = response.json()
#print(json_resp) # All response return
print(json_resp[0]['commit']['author']['date'])
Output:
2021-11-10T03:39:47Z

Thank you that worked

RE: Response.json list indices must be integers or slices, not str [SOLVED] - Lauraburmrs - Dec-15-2022

Hi,
Thanks for trying out the API. Unfortunately at the moment developers don't support retrieving the latest commit date from GitHub.

RE: Response.json list indices must be integers or slices, not str [SOLVED] - fullytotal - Mar-24-2023

In that sample data, yes. But clearly not always, otherwise it wouldn't be a list in the first place.