Extracting Specific Lines from text file based on content.

[jokerfmj]

Hey, all. My apologies as I'm new to python in general, so I'm doing a lot of reading that goes over my head. :)

I'm working on a multi-step process where I run one python script that makes an API call to a system. I then have to extract some of those values from that output so that I can submit them, along with a new password, via a second API call that I would make after.

I have two main questions, first, is it possible to pipe the output of the initial API call directly to a text file rather than just to the console?

Second, is it even possible for python to look through a text file and extract certain lines based on the values in that line?

Some sample output from the first API call:

Output:
{
  "LINE_1": true,
  "LINE_2": "Post \"https://a:443/sdk\": dial tcp: lookup a on 1.1.127.252:53: no such host",
  "EXAMPLE_3": "",
  "created_at": 1648040001,
  "deleted": false,
  "deleted_at": 0,
  "delta_interval": 60,
  "description": "API's Testing.",
  "disable_backup": false,
  "hosts_list": [
    {
      "host_name": "TestingHost",
      "port_number": 443
    }
  ],
  "id": "623b1841755f021ebe269xyz",
  "name": "Tester",
  "password": "",
  "scope_id": "5f7e2a15497d4f48a9605687",
  "type": "vcenter",
}

There are four specific lines I am trying to extract:
"name":
"type":
"hosts_list":
"username":

I've come across some things describing how to convert lines of a text file into individual objects, but that only allows me to print lines based on the number line they are in a text file, it doesn't print lines based on the content in their lines.

Also, if this is possible, the "hosts_list" line may cause an issue because it actually has a subsection that can contain multiple entries. In the above example the subsection is:

Output:
    {
      "host_name": "TestingHost",
      "port_number": 443
    }

Thank you for any help you can provide.