python beautiful soup how to json decode to dict
Question: I'm new to beautifulsoup in python and I"m trying to extract dict from
beatifulsoup

I use beautifulsoup to extract json and got my beautifulsoup.beautifulsoup
variable `soup`

I"m trying to get value out of `soup` , but when I do `result =
soup.findAll("bill")` I got an empty list `[]`. How can I extract soup to get
dict result of

    
    
    {u'congress': 113,
     u'number': 325,
     u'title': u'A bill to ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of the United States Government until May 19, 2013, and for other purposes.',
     u'type': u'hr'}
    
    
    print type(soup)
    print soup 
    

=> result below

    
    
    BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup
    
    {
      "bill": {
        "congress": 113, 
        "number": 325, 
        "title": "A bill to ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of the United States Government until May 19, 2013, and for other purposes.", 
        "type": "hr"
      }, 
      "category": "passage", 
      "chamber": "s"
    }
    

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**UPDATE**

Here is how I got `soup`:

    
    
    from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
    
    import urllib2 
    url = urllib2.urlopen("https://www.govtrack.us/data/congress/113/votes/2013/s11/data.json")
    content = url.read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(content)
    


Answer: You could remove `BeautifulSoup`:

    
    
    import json
    import urllib2
    
    url = "https://www.govtrack.us/data/congress/113/votes/2013/s11/data.json"
    data = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url))
    

