getting information from a text file

[bowlofred]

If we look at your JSON with the structures formatted:

{
  "text_to_speech": 
  [
    {
      "api_key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
      "api_url": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
    }
  ],
  "speech_to_text": 
  [
    {
      "api_key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
      "api_url": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
    }
  ]
}

You can more easily see that the api_key element isn't directly inside the "text_to_speech" dictionary, it's inside a list within. So you'd need to either get rid of that enclosing list, or you'd have to access it by asking for the first element in that list:

>>> data["text_to_speech"]["api_key"]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str
>>> data["text_to_speech"][0]["api_key"]
'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'