Familiarizing with the JSON

Lesson 4 of 10 in Coddy's Social media Search Project - Python JSON Fundamentals course.

In this lesson, we'll get familiar with the JSON structure containing all the information of users/pages in this social media company.

Here's a JSON object representing an employee:

{
	"first_name": "Robert",
	"last_name": "Newell",
	"city": "Atlanta",
	"type": "user",
	"gender": "M",
	"country": "United States",
	"job": "Software Engineer"
}

This is a single record in the database that represents the details of a user. Notice that the type is set as user.

Now let's pick another kind of entity in our social media - a page.

{
	"name": "Friendly Neighborhood Coder",
	"category": "Technology, Education & Engineering",
	"city": "Trivandrum",
	"type": "page",
	"followers": 1080,
	"country": "India",
	"description": "Creator of the YouTube channel - @fncoder. I help python developers level up their skills"
}

The final JSON you get from the social media backend service will be a list of records. Some of these will be user records, and some will be page records. A list of these JSON objects and assigned to a JSON array - results. Format will look like below:

{
	"results": [
		{
			"first_name": "Robert",
			"last_name": "Newell",
			"city": "Atlanta",
			"type": "user",
			"gender": "M",
			"country": "United States",
			"job": "Software Engineer"
		}, {
			"name": "Friendly Neighborhood Coder",
			"category": "Technology, Education & Engineering",
			"city": "Trivandrum",
			"type": "page",
			"followers": 1080,
			"country": "India",
			"description": "Creator of the YouTube channel - @fncoder. I help python developers level up their skills"
		}
	]
}

In some of the challenges in this course, you'll be seeing JSON objects in the above format.

Try it yourself

This lesson doesn't include a code challenge.