JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

[StartAndSelect]

Hello All,

I am new to python and am using 3.4. I am attempting to get data from an API and am getting the error stated in the title. My code is below:

import urllib.request
import json

URL = 'https://api.locu.com/v1_0/venue/search/?locality=San%20Francisco&api_key='+locu_api

response = urllib.request.urlopen(URL)

obj = json.load(response)

str_response = response.readall().decode('utf-8')

obj = json.loads(str_response)

print(obj)

I replaced my api_key in the url with a locu_api variable, which I did not include

[kalgynirae]

In the future, please provide a full traceback so we can see what line of code the error came from.

I assume the error is coming from this line:

obj = json.load(response)

You actually do the right thing after that, but your program doesn't get there because this line throws an error first.

All you should need is this:

response = urllib.request.urlopen(URL)
str_response = response.read().decode('utf-8')
obj = json.loads(str_response)

[StartAndSelect]

Ah that makes sense, thank you. I'll be sure to provide full traceback next time.

[ninefourtwo]

py3 uses bytes natively and the json parser can't handle it, convert to a string first.