Question

I’m trying to parse some JSON from the twitter API and extract the value of a key (“media_url”), which is a sub-key of the key (“entities”)

so far I have:

url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&screen_name=print_broadcast&count=1'
response = RestClient.get(url)
data=response.body
result = JSON.parse(data)

How would I extract a key value from the parsed JSON?
I’ve tried

result[“entities”] 

etc, but I get en error when trying to convert a string to integer… the result of my parsed JSON is an array – shouldn’t this be a hash?

Sorry for the dumb questions.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The JSON output is actually a list. Granted, it only has one element, but it’s still a list.

First get result[0], then you can access ['entries'].