Write python response data to json file

This Python code is a script that sends an HTTP GET request to a URL (in this case, 'https://google.com') using the requests library and saves the response data to a file. Let's go through the code step by step:

1. Import required libraries:

   • json: Used to handle JSON data.
   • requests: Used to make HTTP requests.

2. Define the URL and headers for the GET request:

   • url: The URL to which the GET request is sent. In this example, it is 'https://google.com'.
   • headers: HTTP headers that can be added to the request if needed. Currently, it's an empty dictionary.

3. Send the GET request:

   • requests.get(url, headers=headers): Sends a GET request to the specified URL with optional headers.

4. Check the response status code:

   • response.status_code: Contains the HTTP status code returned by the server (e.g., 200 for success, 404 for not found, etc.).

5. Process the response:

   • If the response status code is 200 (OK), it proceeds to process the response data.
   • If the 'Content-Type' header of the response contains 'json', it assumes that the response contains JSON data and attempts to decode it using response.json().
   • If the JSON decoding is successful, it saves the JSON data to a file with an extension of '.json'.
   • If JSON decoding fails or the 'Content-Type' header does not contain 'json', it saves the response content (non-JSON data) to a file with a default extension of '.txt'.

6. Save the response data to a file:

   • The data is saved to a file named 'response_data' with the appropriate extension (either '.json' or '.txt') based on the content type.

7. Print the outcome:

   • If the request is successful and the response is saved, it prints the file name and extension where the data is saved.
   • If the request is not successful (e.g., the status code is not 200), it prints an error message along with the status code.

This script can be used to make a GET request to any URL and save the response data to a file, provided that the server responds with either JSON or non-JSON content. Note that this script does not handle cases where the server returns other types of data (e.g., images, videos, etc.).

              
                import json
import requests

url = 'https://google.com'
headers = {}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
response_headers = response.headers['Content-Type']

if response.status_code == 200:
    if 'json' in response_headers:
        filetype = 'json'
        try:
            content = response.json()
        except json.JSONDecodeError:
            print("Error: Response content is not in JSON format.")
            content = None
    else:
        filetype = 'txt'  # You can set a default extension for other content types.
        content = response.content

    filename = "response_data"
    with open(f"{filename}.{filetype}", 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        if content is not None:
            if filetype == 'json':
                json.dump(content, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=4)
            else:
                f.write(content)
    print(f"Response saved to {filename}.{filetype}")
else:
    print(f"Failed to fetch data. Status Code: {response.status_code}")