How do I request and process JSON with python?
For anything with requests to URLs you might want to check out requests. For JSON in particular:
>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json')
>>> r.json()
[{u'repository': {u'open_issues': 0, u'url': 'https://github.com/...
Python's standard library has json and urllib2 modules.
import json
import urllib2
data = json.load(urllib2.urlopen('http://someurl/path/to/json'))