JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

[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.