The API here: https://api.bitfinex.com/v2/tickers?symbols=ALL
does not have any labels and I want to extract all of the tBTCUSD, tLTCUSD etc.. Basically everything without numbers. Normally, i would extract this information if they are labeled so i can do something like:
data['name']
or something like that however this API does not have labels.. how can i get this info with python?
You can do it like this:
import requests
j = requests.get('https://api.bitfinex.com/v2/tickers?symbols=ALL').json()
mydict = {}
for i in j:
mydict[i[0]] = i[1:]
Or using dictionary comprehension:
mydict = {i[0]: i[1:] for i in j}
Then access it as:
mydict['tZRXETH']
j=json.loads(r.text). Just call .json() on the response. r = requests.get('https://api.bitfinex.com/v2/tickers?symbols=ALL').json()I don't have access to Python right now, but it looks like they're organized in a superarray of several subarrays.
You should be able to extract everything (the superarray) as data, and then do a:
for array in data:
print array[0]
Not sure if this answers your question. Let me know!
Even if it doesn't have labels (or, more specifically, if it's not a JSON object) it's still a perfectly legal piece of JSON, since it's just some arrays contained within a parent array.
Assuming you can already get the text from the api, you can load it as a Python object using json.loads:
import json
data = json.loads(your_data_as_string)
Then, since the labels you want to extract are always in the first position of the arrays, you can store them in a list using a list comprehension:
labels = [x[0] for x in data]
labels will be:
['tBTCUSD', 'tLTCUSD', 'tLTCBTC', 'tETHUSD', 'tETHBTC', 'tETCBTC', ...]
