getjson 0.1.1

Conventions used at MicroPrediction.Org

getjson

Very limited mini-package for retrieving JSON data with backoff and failover

Install

pip install getjson 

Usage

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

This does one thing

def request_json(url, failover_url=None):
""" Tries to get json data from a URL for 30 seconds, then tries a failover url

    :param  url           str    e.g. 'https://config.microprediction.org/config.json'
    :param  failover_url  str    e.g. 'https://stableconfig.microprediction.org/config.json'
    :returns obj converted using json() method

    Does not throw exceptions. Fails quietly and returns None if data cannot be retrieved.

    If you don't like, use backoff directly.

"""