Python program to extract a single value from JSON response (Using API call)

Hello Everyone! In this Python tutorial, we are going to learn how to retrieve Single data or single values from JSON using Python. To perform this task we will be going to use the request module in Python, this module allows users to send HTTP requests and receive responses in form of JSON.

How to extract a single value from JSON response

Let’s start by importing the requests module,

import request
import urllib.parse

After importing modules,

import urllib.parse
import requests

base_url="https://v6.exchangerate-api.com/v6/Enter your API key here/pair/"

print("Enter the First Currency")
s=input()
print("Enter the Second Currency")
l=input()

value=s+"/"+l
url = base_url+value

json_data = requests.get(final_url).json()

result = json_data['conversion_rate']
print("Conversion rate from "+s+" to "+l+" = ",result)

1.  Declare base_url with API key variable.
2. Take the inputs from the user.
3.  Add the user input to our base_url and make final_url or make an API request to the server and fetch the data from the server.
4. Now, json_data makes an API call and fetches the data from the server & it contains JSON response.
5. We will get the result from the website in JSON format.
6. So let us create a variable called result which will contain the JSON data and retrieve the single data which is required.
7. To retrieve single data like ‘conversion_rate’ you have to declare a variable from the JSON response.
8. The ‘result’ variable holds the value of ‘conversion_rate’.
9. Final print the result.

 

JSON RESPONSE

result "success"
documentation "https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs"
terms_of_use "https://www.exchangerate-api.com/terms"
time_last_update_unix 1615075202
time_last_update_utc "Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00:02 +0000"
time_next_update_unix 1615161617
time_next_update_utc "Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:17 +0000"
base_code "USD"
target_code "INR"
conversion_rate 73.0648

 

OUTPUT

Enter the First Currency
USD
Enter the Second Currency
INR
Conversion rate from USD to INR = 73.0648

Now, you can understand how to retrieve single data from a variety of other APIs.