getjson 2.0.0

Request JSON data en masse with backoff and failover

getjson

A micro-package for retrieving JSON data, en masse potentially, with backoff and failover

Install

pip install getjson 

Usage

data_or_none = getjson.getjson('https://config.microprediction.com/config.json')

Usage w/ failover

data_or_none = getjson.getjson('https://config.microprediction.com/config.json','https://stableconfig.microprediction.com/config.json')

Multiple urls

urls = ['http://api.microprediction.org/lagged/traffic_absolute_speed.json','https://api.microprediction.org/lagged/die.json']
data = getjson.mgetjson(urls=urls)    

Multiple urls with failover

urls = ['http://api.microprediction.org/lagged/traffic_absolute_speed.json','https://api.microprediction.org/lagged/die.json']
failover_urls = ['http://stableapi.microprediction.org/lagged/traffic_absolute_speed.json','https://stableapi.microprediction.org/lagged/die.json']
data = getjson.mgetjson(urls=urls, failover_urls=failover_urls)    

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