Working with JSON and Django - json

Question

I am new to Python and Django. I am an IT professional that deploys software that monitors computers. The api outputs to JSON. I want to create a Django app that reads the api and outputs the data to an html page. Where do I get started? I think the idea is to write the JSON feed to a Django model. Any help/advice is greatly appreciated.
Here's a simple single file to extract the JSON data:
import urllib2
import json
def printResults(data):
theJSON = json.loads(data)
for i in theJSON[""]
def main():
urlData = ""
webUrl = urllib2.urlopen(urlData)
if (webUrl.getcode() == 200):
data = webUrl.read()
printResults(data)
else:
print "Received error"
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

Answer 1

If you have an URL returning a json as response, you could try this:
import requests
import json
url = 'http://....' # Your api url
response = requests.get(url)
json_response = response.json()
Now json_response is a list containing dicts. Let's suppose you have this structure:
[
{
'code': ABC,
'avg': 14.5,
'max': 30
},
{
'code': XYZ,
'avg': 11.6,
'max': 21
},
...
]
You can iterate over the list and take every dict into a model.
from yourmodels import CurrentModel
...
for obj in json_response:
cm = CurrentModel()
cm.avg = obj['avg']
cm.max = obj['max']
cm.code = obj['code']
cm.save()
Or you could use a bulk method, but keep in mind that bulk_create does not trigger save method.