Python urllib2: Receive JSON response from url

If the URL is returning valid JSON-encoded data, use the json library to decode that:

import urllib2
import json

response = urllib2.urlopen('https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/pizza/media/XXXXXX')
data = json.load(response)   
print data

import json
import urllib

url = 'http://example.com/file.json'
r = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
data = json.loads(r.read().decode(r.info().get_param('charset') or 'utf-8'))
print(data)

urllib, for Python 3.4
HTTPMessage, returned by r.info()

"""
Return JSON to webpage
Adding to wonderful answer by @Sanal
For Django 3.4
Adding a working url that returns a json (Source: http://www.jsontest.com/#echo)
"""

import json
import urllib

url = 'http://echo.jsontest.com/insert-key-here/insert-value-here/key/value'
respons = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
data = json.loads(respons.read().decode(respons.info().get_param('charset') or 'utf-8'))
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(data), content_type="application/json")

Be careful about the validation and etc, but the straight solution is this:

import json
the_dict = json.load(response)