Python Requests response decode

Question

I send a request using python requests and then print the response, what confuse me is that the Chinese characters in response is something like \数\据\返\回\成\功
Here is the code:

# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-
import requests

url = "http://www.biyou888.com/api/getdataapi.php?ac=3005&sess_token=&urlid=-1"
res = requests.get(url)
if res.status_code == 200:
    print res.text

Below is the response

response data

What should i do to tranfer the response? I have try to use encode and decode but it dose work.

Answer 1

Use requests.Response.json and you will get the chinese caracters.

import requests
import json

url = "http://www.biyou888.com/api/getdataapi.phpac=3005&sess_token=&urlid=-1"
res = requests.get(url)
if res.status_code == 200:
    res_payload_dict = res.json()
    print(res_payload_dict)

Answer 2

How to use response.encoding using Python requests?

For illustrate, let's ping API of Github.

# import requests module 
import requests 
  
# Making a get request 
response = requests.get('https://api.github.com') 
  
# print response 
print(response) 
  
# print encoding of response 
print(response.encoding)

output:

<Response [200]>
utf-8

So, in your example, try res.json() instead of res.text ?

As in:

# encoding of your response 
print(res.encoding)

res.encoding='utf-8-sig'
print(res.json())

sig in utf-8-sig is the abbreviation of signature (ie signature utf-8 file).

Using utf-8-sig to read a file will treat BOM as file info instead of a string.

Answer 3

import requests
import json

url = "http://www.biyou888.com/api/getdataapi.php?ac=3005&sess_token=&urlid=-1"
res = requests.get(url)
res_dict = {}
if res.status_code == 200:
    print type(res.text)
    print res.text
    res_dict = json.loads(res.text)  # get a dict from parameter string

    print "Dict:"
    print type(res_dict)
    print res_dict
    print res_dict['info']

Use json module to parse that input. And the prefix u just means it is a unicode string. When you use them, the u prefix won't affect, just like what I show at the last several lines.