Recently, I developed a program for extracting data from an API that returns information in JSON format. However, when attempting to parse the data, I encountered a key error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 20, in <module>
print(parsed_json['plain'])
KeyError: 'plain'
The following snippet of code is crucial (the remaining portion deals with forming the URL and operates without any issues)
response = urllib.request.urlopen(url2).read()
strr = str(response)
if "plain" in strr:
parsed_json = json.loads(response.decode("UTF-8"))
print(parsed_json['plain'])
elif "INVALID HASH" in strr:
print("You have entered an invalid hash.")
elif "NOT FOUND" in strr:
print("The hash is not found")
elif "LIMIT REACHED" in strr:
print("You have reached the max requests per minute, please try again in one minute.")
My objective is to extract data stored in the "plain" field. Below is a sample output retrieved from the API:
{
"REQUEST": "FOUND",
"739c5b1cd5681e668f689aa66bcc254c": {
"plain": "test",
"hexplain": "74657374",
"algorithm": "MD5X5PLAIN"
}
}