[GH-ISSUE #791] Valid json uses " for strings, not ' #492

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opened 2026-02-27 23:22:55 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

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Originally created by @Ximzend on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/issues/791

I tried several online json beatify pages to explorer the json I got from spotipy and they all gave an error. The issue: spotipy uses ' instead of " for strings.

Originally created by @Ximzend on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/issues/791 I tried several online json beatify pages to explorer the json I got from spotipy and they all gave an error. The issue: spotipy uses ' instead of " for strings.

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@dieser-niko commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2022):

If you mean the "JSON" you get when you call a search function for example, then this is not JSON. This is already parsed into a python object. Python automatically displays strings with a ', even if you create the string with a ". So just do this if you want to get a JSON string:

import json
import spotipy
from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyClientCredentials

sp = spotipy.Spotify(auth_manager=SpotifyClientCredentials(client_id="YOUR_APP_CLIENT_ID",
                                                           client_secret="YOUR_APP_CLIENT_SECRET"))

result = sp.search(q='weezer', limit=20)
json_result = json.dumps(result)
print(json_result)

@dieser-niko commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2022): If you mean the "JSON" you get when you call a search function for example, then this is not JSON. This is already parsed into a python object. Python automatically displays strings with a `'`, even if you create the string with a `"`. So just do this if you want to get a JSON string: ```python3 import json import spotipy from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyClientCredentials sp = spotipy.Spotify(auth_manager=SpotifyClientCredentials(client_id="YOUR_APP_CLIENT_ID", client_secret="YOUR_APP_CLIENT_SECRET")) result = sp.search(q='weezer', limit=20) json_result = json.dumps(result) print(json_result) ```

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@dieser-niko commented on GitHub (May 1, 2024):

Closing as there's no activity

@dieser-niko commented on GitHub (May 1, 2024): Closing as there's no activity