This is a reply from the Google Distance Matrix. I would like to have only the two value's as an output and I'm trying to extract it with Python.
{
"destination_addresses" : [ "Hoorn, Nederland" ],
"origin_addresses" : [ "Amsterdam, Nederland" ],
"rows" : [
{
"elements" : [
{
"distance" : {
"text" : "45,0 km",
"value" : 44952
},
"duration" : {
"text" : "40 min.",
"value" : 2423
},
"status" : "OK"
}
]
}
],
"status" : "OK"
}
This is what I've tried so far. I want to have a reply from Google every 15 minutes and write it to a file. But in the file I only want the value for distance and duration and I have no luck in achieving that. I'm not sure if the reply from Google is proper JSON so I've tried json.loads but it did not allow me to extract certain parts from the reply. Any ideas?
import requests
import json
import datetime
from apscheduler.schedulers.blocking import BlockingScheduler
uri = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins=Amsterdam&destinations=Hoorn&mode=driving&key="
now = datetime.datetime.now()
def job():
datum = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
print datum
text_file = open('tijdsduur.txt', 'a')
batch = requests.get(uri)
data = batch.text
jdata = json.loads(data)
print jdata['elements']['distance']['value']
text_file.write(data)
text_file.write('\n')
text_file.close()
job()
scheduler = BlockingScheduler()
scheduler.add_job(job, 'interval', minutes=15)
scheduler.start()
Error when I try json.loads: KeyError 'elements'
json.loads will take a string paramater. The 's' in the loads is for string.
import json
a="""{
"destination_addresses" : [ "Hoorn, Nederland" ],
"origin_addresses" : [ "Amsterdam, Nederland" ],
"rows" : [
{
"elements" : [
{
"distance" : {
"text" : "45,0 km",
"value" : 44952
},
"duration" : {
"text" : "40 min.",
"value" : 2423
},
"status" : "OK"
}
]
}
],
"status" : "OK"
}"""
b = json.loads(a)
dist,dur = b['rows'][0]['elements'][0]['distance'], b['rows'][0]['elements'][0]['duration']
print dist
print dur
Output:
{u'text': u'40 min.', u'value': 2423}
{u'text': u'45,0 km', u'value': 44952}
Note that:
So if you have a json object which you had earlier converted to string using str() and now you want to convert it back to JSON then you can work around like this:
json.loads(json.dumps(str(json_object)))
i think your problem because \\n character. try to remove it and use json.loads to extract the response in batch to be json. Here is the response that i got from google:
u'{\n "destination_addresses" : [ "Hoorn, Netherlands" ],\n "origin_addresses" : [ "Amsterdam, Netherlands" ],\n "rows" : [\n {\n "elements" : [\n {\n "distance" : {\n "text" : "45.0 km",\n "value" : 44952\n },\n "duration" : {\n "text" : "40 mins",\n "value" : 2423\n },\n "status" : "OK"\n }\n ]\n }\n ],\n "status" : "OK"\n}\n'
batch.replace("\n", "")
jsonData = json.loads(batch)
Now you have jsonData as JSON
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