Last.fm Top Artists Api

Question

  @commands.command()
  async def np(self,ctx):
        async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
            params= {"api_key" : "censored",
            "user" : "x",
            "period" : "overall",
             "limit" : 10,
             "method":"user.getTopArtists",
             "format":"json"}
            async with session.get(url="http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0", params=params) as response:
                resp = await response.read()
                print(resp)

I am making it so that it retrieves the top (1st) artist of a user, the reply is something really long which you can find here. How do I retrieve/fetch only the "rank" : 1 artist from all that mess?

Answer 1

You're requesting a JSON response

"format":"json"}

So this is what you get. To load it into a dictionary, use the json library

import json
jsonData = json.loads(resp)

Now, you can get the dictionary for the first artist via

topArtist = jsonData["topartists"]["artist"][0]

And from there, you can retrieve all the info, like the url

topArtistUrl = topArtist["url"]

---

import json
@commands.command()
  async def np(self,ctx):
        async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
            params= {"api_key" : "censored",
            "user" : "x",
            "period" : "overall",
             "limit" : 10,
             "method":"user.getTopArtists",
             "format":"json"}
            async with session.get(url="http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0", params=params) as response:
                resp = await response.read()
                jsonData = json.loads(resp)
                topArtist = jsonData["topartists"]["artist"][0]
                topArtistUrl = topArtist["url"]