Trouble with with parsing JSON

Question

I am trying to use the Poke api to create a quick version of a pokedex. I just want the user to input a pokemons name and return the name of the pokemon they choose, and other small details. I can get my code to print out the entire json file for the pokemon but not just specific info. I am using Python 3.

My current code looks like this:

import requests
import pprint


def main():
    poke_base_uri = "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/"
    poke_choice = "pidgey"
    pokeresponse = requests.get(f"{poke_base_uri}{poke_choice}/")

    # Decode the response
    poke = pokeresponse.json()
    pprint.pprint(poke)

    print("\nGreat Choice you chose:")
    for name in poke:
        name_info = poke.get(pokemon_species)
        print(name_info.json().get('name'))

Answer 1

Looks like you're very close.

I'd start by removing the for loop. You don't need that for this.

poke does contain all the info you're looking for, but you need to change your argument to poke.get. If you print out poke.keys() it will show you all the keys the dict has. You should see something like this:

dict_keys(['abilities', 'base_experience', 'forms', 'game_indices', 'height', 'held_items', 'id', 'is_default', 'location_area_encounters', 'moves', 'name', 'order', 'species', 'sprites', 'stats', 'types', 'weight'])

I think what you're trying to do is:

>>> name_info = poke.get("species")
{'name': 'pidgey', 'url': 'https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon-species/16/'}

You also don't need any more calls to .json(), they aren't actually available on the name_info object. .json is an attribute of a requests response object (that you got when you called requests.get). It returns a python dictionary containing the requested data from the site. Because it returns a plain python dict, you can just access all it's keys and values with .get.

I'd suggest reading up on python dictionaries. They're a very powerful object and learning to use them well is crucial to writing nice python.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=dict#dict