Unable to print output of JSON code into a .csv file - json

Question

I'm getting the following errors when trying to decode this data, and the 2nd error after trying to compensate for the unicode error:
Error 1:
write.writerows(subjects)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 160: ordinal not in range(128)
Error 2:
with open("data.csv", encode="utf-8", "w",) as writeFile:
SyntaxError: non-keyword arg after keyword arg
Code
import requests
import json
import csv
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib
r = urllib.urlopen('https://thisiscriminal.com/wp-json/criminal/v1/episodes?posts=10000&page=1')
data = json.loads(r.read().decode('utf-8'))
subjects = []
for post in data['posts']:
subjects.append([post['title'], post['episodeNumber'],
post['audioSource'], post['image']['large'], post['excerpt']['long']])
with open("data.csv", encode="utf-8", "w",) as writeFile:
write = csv.writer(writeFile)
write.writerows(subjects)

Answer 1

Using requests and with the correction to the second part (as below) I have no problem running. I think your first problem is due to the second error (is a consequence of that being incorrect).
I am on Python3 and can run yours with my fix to open line and with
r = urllib.request.urlopen('https://thisiscriminal.com/wp-json/criminal/v1/episodes?posts=10000&page=1')
I personally would use requests.
import requests
import csv
data = requests.get('https://thisiscriminal.com/wp-json/criminal/v1/episodes?posts=10000&page=1').json()
subjects = []
for post in data['posts']:
subjects.append([post['title'], post['episodeNumber'],
post['audioSource'], post['image']['large'], post['excerpt']['long']])
with open("data.csv", encoding ="utf-8", mode = "w",) as writeFile:
write = csv.writer(writeFile)
write.writerows(subjects)
For your second, looking at documentation for open function, you need to use the right argument names and add the name of the mode argument if not positional matching.
with open("data.csv", encoding ="utf-8", mode = "w") as writeFile: