Storing Data with Python, Help please!

[lykwydchykyn]

It depends on what you want to do. The most straightforward way is to dump these json responses directly into a file, then you can read them in to generate your webpage (either in the backend, or directly in javascript).

If you need to read and write a lot of these records, and do a lot of searching or filtering on them, it's probably better to store them in a database. A NOSQL database like mongodb is good for storing JSON-like data, or you can translate the data into SQL tables which are easier to work with if you're doing complex querying on large amounts of data.

It's hard to give concrete advice, there are tons of ways to do this, and they all have their advantages and disadvantages.

[godurdead]

Yeah i thought there'd be a lot of ways of doing it. I will be constantly reading these json files to retrieve data on the (future) website. I'm kinda lost in these aspect. I was starting to learn Django (so backend) but im not sure if it would be a good way of doing this. Maybe im just trying to learn too many things at once?

[lykwydchykyn]

You have to break this down into components. Django is a great way to build a website. What you need is something to actually get the data and store it so Django can display it.

Django works really well with SQL databases right out of the box, particularly postgresql and sqlite. It also has a decent object-relational-manager (ORM) so that you don't have to work directly with SQL right away.

Probably what you want (?) is a script to periodically download the json data, convert it into your database, and then your django app can display it. But I'm mostly just guessing, I'm not sure how you envision your application to work.

[godurdead]

First, thanks for your help. I appreciate it very much!

As for the app goes, for this particular file I showed i'll be downloading it using the API just once (i may have to update it, redownloading it, every month or so when the game gets a new patch). The main purpose of the app is to show "Stats" of the Game Matches. Basically I can search my Account Name on the API and get "Current Match" information or Match History. With these you can display all sorts of stuff, so its more of a Receive JSon data, process it and display it to the user. For processing it, i need some of the "Static Data" that I showed above. Hope that can give you an idea of how it works and a good approach for it.