Get data from the URL and then call json.loads e.g.
Python3 example:
import urllib.request, json
with urllib.request.urlopen(“http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=google”) as url:
data = json.loads(url.read().decode())
print(data)
Python2 example:
import urllib, json
url = “http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=google”
response = urllib.urlopen(url)
data = json.loads(response.read())
print data
The output would result in something like this:
{
“results” : [
{
“address_components” : [
{
“long_name” : “Charleston and Huff”,
“short_name” : “Charleston and Huff”,
“types” : [ “establishment”, “point_of_interest” ]
},
{
“long_name” : “Mountain View”,
“short_name” : “Mountain View”,
“types” : [ “locality”, “political” ]
},
{
…
I’ll take a guess that you actually want to get data from the URL:
jsonurl = urlopen(url)
text = json.loads(jsonurl.read()) # <-- read from it
Or, check out JSON decoder in the requests library.
import requests
r = requests.get('someurl')
print r.json() # if response type was set to JSON, then you'll automatically have a JSON response here...