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Asked: 2026-05-15T09:33:46+00:00

How would I save JSON outputted by an URL to a file? e.g from

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How would I save JSON outputted by an URL to a file?

e.g from the Twitter search API (this http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=hi)

Language isn’t important.

edit // How would I then append further updates to EOF?

edit 2// Great answers guys really, but I accepted the one I thought was the most elegant.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is easy in any language, but the mechanism varies. With wget and a shell:

    wget 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=hi' -O hi.json

    To append:

    wget 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=hi' -O - >> hi.json

    With Python:

    urllib.urlretrieve('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=hi', 'hi.json')

    To append:

    hi_web = urllib2.urlopen('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=hi');
with open('hi.json', 'ab') as hi_file:
  hi_file.write(hi_web.read())
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