Access Item In Json Result

I am a bit confused as to how access artists name in this JSON result: { 'tracks' : { 'href' : 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=karma+police&offset=0&limit=20

Solution 1:

artists is a list of dicts, because a track can have many artists. Similarly items is also a list. So for example you can do results['tracks']['items'][0]['artists'][0]['name'], but that will only get you the first artist of the first track.

Solution 2:

Defensively written, this might look something like:

artist_names = set() # using a set avoids adding the same name more than onceif'tracks'in results and 'items'in results['tracks']:
  for item in results['tracks']['items']:
    for artist in item.get('artists', ()):
      if'name'in artist:
        artist_names.add(artist['name'])

for name in artist_names:
  print"Found artist:", name

Solution 3:

You should do items = results['tracks']['items'][0]['artists'][0]['name'](although this is technically hardcoded)

As your artist and items object are arrays (with only one, so we reference the first with [0])