python - Access a particular field in arbitrarily nested JSON data

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In a single line -

>>> json.loads(data['data']['video_info'][0]['announcement'])['content']
'FOLLOW ME PLEASE'

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To help you understand how to access data (so you don't have to ask again), you'll need to stare at your data.

First, let's lay out your data nicely. You can either use json.dumps(data, indent=4), or you can use an online tool like JSONLint.com.

{
    'data': {
        'time': '1515580011',
        'video_info': [{
            'announcement': (    # ***
            """{
                "announcement_id": "6",
                "name": "INS\u8d26\u53f7",
                "icon": "http:\\/\\/liveme.cms.ksmobile.net\\/live\\/announcement\\/2017-08-18_19:44:54\\/ins.png",
                "icon_new": "http:\\/\\/liveme.cms.ksmobile.net\\/live\\/announcement\\/2017-10-20_22:24:38\\/4.png",
                "videoid": "15154610218328614178",
                "content": "FOLLOW ME PLEASE",
                "x_coordinate": "0.22",
                "y_coordinate": "0.23"
            }"""),
            'announcement_shop': ''
        }]
    },
    'msg': '',
    'status': '200'
} 

*** Note that the data in the announcement key is actually more json data, which I've laid out on separate lines.

First, find out where your data resides. You're looking for the data in the content key, which is accessed by the announcement key, which is part of a dictionary inside a list of dicts, which can be accessed by the video_info key, which is in turn accessed by data.

So, in summary, "descend" the ladder that is "data" using the following "rungs" -

1. data, a dictionary
2. video_info, a list of dicts
3. announcement, a dict in the first dict of the list of dicts
4. content residing as part of json data.

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First,

i = data['data']

Next,

j = i['video_info']

Next,

k = j[0] # since this is a list

If you only want the first element, this suffices. Otherwise, you'd need to iterate:

for k in j:
    ...

Next,

l = k['announcement']

Now, l is JSON data. Load it -

import json
m = json.loads(l)

Lastly,

content = m['content']

print(content)
'FOLLOW ME PLEASE'

This should hopefully serve as a guide should you have future queries of this nature.