Getting response from URL after changing config.json properties with Python

Question

How can i resolve problem in Python?

1. Read config.json file located in : /data/python/config.json make a GET request to the URL under ‘url’ key and add the first 15 characters to a key name ‘content’ in the json file.
2. config.json: {"url": "https://www.google.com"}
3. config.json after code run: {"url": "https://www.google.com", "content": ""} Where should be the first 15 characters from the response.

Answer 1

This is the code, that will help you to get what you want

Note: you will need to install requests library before running the code. pip install requests

import json

import requests

with open("/data/python/config.json", "r") as f:
    config = json.load(f)

result = requests.get(config['url'])

config['content'] = result.text[:15]

with open("config.json", "w") as f:
    json.dump(config, f)

It does simple things:

1. Loads config.json from json to python dict
2. Gets url value from it
3. Sends request using requests library
4. Adds content slice of length 15 to a dict with a key content
5. Saves updated dictionary to config.json