Python: Get Twitter Trends in tweepy, and parse JSON
Question: _Ok, so please note this is my first post_

So, I am trying to use Python to get Twitter Trends, I am using python 2.7 and
Tweepy.

I would like something like this (which works):

    
    
    #!/usr/bin/python
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    import tweepy
    consumer_key = 'secret'
    consumer_secret = 'secret'
    access_token = 'secret'
    access_token_secret = 'secret'
    # OAuth process, using the keys and tokens
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    api = tweepy.API(auth)
    trends1 = api.trends_place(1)
    
    print trends1
    

That gives a massive JSON string,

I would like to extract each trend name to a variable, in string format
`str(trendsname)` ideally.

Which would ideally have the names of trends like so: `trendsname =
str(trend1) + " " +str(trend2) + " "` and so on, for each of the trend names.

Please note I am only learning Python.


Answer: It looks like Tweepy deserializes the JSON for you. As such, `trends1` is just
an ordinary Python list. This being the case, you can simply do the following:

    
    
    trends1 = api.trends_place(1) # from the end of your code
    # trends1 is a list with only one element in it, which is a 
    # dict which we'll put in data.
    data = trends1[0] 
    # grab the trends
    trends = data['trends']
    # grab the name from each trend
    names = [trend['name'] for trend in trends]
    # put all the names together with a ' ' separating them
    trendsName = ' '.join(names)
    print(trendsName)
    

Result:

    
    
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