A Brief Interlude
So far the source has been Python and the recipient has been .Net.Python has a number of modules to handle HTTP requests, and one of the simplest to use is the Requests module.
import requests
req = requests.get('https://<your-user-name>.pythonanywhere.com/subscribers')
print(req.text)
This will return the same data as the browser example earlier:
>>> %Run firstrequest.py
{"Subscribers":[{"subscriber": {"emailaddress": "email_0@tec.com", "subscriptionid": 0}}, {"subscriber": {"emailaddress": "email_1@tec.com", "subscriptionid": 1}}, {"subscriber": {"emailaddress": "email_2@tec.com", "subscriptionid": 2}}, {"subscriber": {"emailaddress": "email_3@tec.com", "subscriptionid": 3}}, {"subscriber": {"emailaddress": "email_4@tec.com", "subscriptionid": 4}}]}
>>>
Now once you have the data, it needs to be converted into something usable.
JSON is based on the structure of Javascript, but the Python Dictionary is easily convertible to and from JSON.
The data has a dictionary (Subscribers), within which is a list. Each item (subscriber) in the list has two name-value pairs (subscriptionid and emailaddress).
import requests
req = requests.get('https://<your-user-name>.pythonanywhere.com/subscribers'
aDictionary = json.loads(req.text)
#print(y['Subscribers'])
for x in aDictionary['Subscribers']:
print(x['subscriber']['subscriptionid'],x['subscriber']['emailaddress'])
The output:
0 email_0@tec.com
1 email_1@tec.com
2 email_2@tec.com
3 email_3@tec.com
4 email_4@tec.com
