Question

I have Python script which retrieves data from an API in JSON format (at least I think its JSON format). I want to loop through each ‘object’ and write to a CSV file.

Here is the data returned from the api:

[
{
    "bids_won": "7",
    "partner_revenue": "$0.01",
    "profit": "$0.00",
    "campaign_id": "test 1", 
    "post_click_conversions": "0", 
    "total_cost": "$0.01",
    "total_media_cost": "$0.01",
    "post_view_conversions": "2", 
    "adjusted_partner_cost": "$0.01", 
    "clicks": "0",
    "day": "August 21, 2011"
},
{
    "bids_won": "30,209", 
    "partner_revenue": "$38.67", 
    "profit": "$8.92", 
    "campaign_id": "test 2", 
    "post_click_conversions": "0", 
    "total_cost": "$29.75", 
    "total_media_cost": "$29.75", 
    "post_view_conversions": "0", 
    "adjusted_partner_cost  ": "$25.26", 
    "clicks": "10", 
    "day": "August 21, 2011"
}
 ]

How can I loop through these ‘objects’ and write them to a CSV file? My current attempt to loop through it results in the script interating through each letter..

Appreciate the help.

ps I’m using python 2.7

Answer 1

In the end I was given a slightly different URL for the request which returned raw CSV. I dumped the content into a CSV file:

f = open('report.csv', 'wb')
f.write(response_content)
f.close

Its not an ideal solution because I still cannot loop through the CSV objects (goes through each character) but I’m able to create a resonably well formatted csv file so its ok for now.