Iterating Help

[Joeylax54]

Hello,

I've been working with some open API from ESPN located here:
https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1/game.../feed/live

as you can see, this is a pretty convoluted json file

I honestly do not know where to start as I have never worked with json files at this magnitude.

I have had a few attempts using this script here:

import urllib.request
import json

with urllib.request.urlopen("https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1/game/2021020748/feed/live") as url:
    live = json.loads(url.read().decode())
for type in live['liveData']['plays']:
    

though I don't know how to get from this point. I have tried by using another for loop

for type2 in type['allPlays'];
    print(type2)

[perfringo]

I honestly do not know where to start

...and we can't help you because we don't know what you want to accomplish.

[Larz60+]

The following code will get you the json data and save in a dictionary.
I added the display__dict function only to show the format of the dictionary.
It's not needed for any other reason, and can be removed.

import requests
import json

nhlstats = {}

def display_dict(dictname, level=0):
    indent = " " * (4 * level)
    for key, value in dictname.items():
        if isinstance(value, dict):
            print(f'\n{indent}{key}')
            level += 1
            display_dict(value, level)
        else:
            print(f'{indent}{key}: {value}')
        if level > 0:
            level -= 1

url = "https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1/game/2021020748/feed/live"
response = requests.get(url)
if response.status_code == 200:
    nhlstats = response.json()
    display_dict(nhlstats)
else:
    print(f"Unable to extract json from {url}")