get data from URL XML with python and xmltodict

Question

I'm trying in python2.7 with xmltodict ext. get data from app engine API (XML type). Got no idea of how doing that... I tried to do so with local XML (I download it from source url) with success my local code look like this:

import xmltodict

document = open("my local path\API_GETDATA.xml", "r")

read_doc = document.read()

xml_doc = xmltodict.parse(read_doc)

for i in xml_doc:

    print (xml_doc[i])

    i=i+1

and my result is printing all XML fields.

How can I make it work on url? Is there any other thing I miss?

What is not working?

Padraic Cunningham
– Padraic Cunningham

2016-06-13 12:35:04 +00:00
Commented Jun 13, 2016 at 12:35 — Padraic Cunningham
– Padraic Cunningham, Commented Jun 13, 2016 at 12:35

Simon Kirsten · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-13 11:53:53Z

4

Use the python library requests:

Install with pip install requests and use like this:

import requests

r = requests.get("url")

xmltodict.parse(r.content)

answered Jun 13, 2016 at 11:53

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Tzahi Kadosh Over a year ago

i'm getting error msg : Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\tzahi.k\Desktop\xmltodict-0.10.2\tttt.py", line 18, in <module> xmltodict.parse(r.content) File "C:\Users\tzahi.k\Desktop\xmltodict-0.10.2\xmltodict.py", line 311, in parse parser.Parse(xml_input, True) ExpatError: syntax error: line 1, column 0

Simon Kirsten Over a year ago

It seems like either the XML is not proper XML or some other XML parsing problem. To debug this write the following before the parse line: open("out.txt", "wb").write(r.content) and upload the out.txt file to pastebin.com and post it here. I will take a look at it.

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