I am requesting youtube search terms for use with jquery autocomplete, but am having a hard time converting the URL response into a proper format.
In my (Django/Python) view I do:
data2 = urllib2.urlopen('http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?hl=en&ds=yt&client=youtube&hjson=t&jsonp=window.yt.www.suggest.handleResponse&q=jum&cp=3')
(I hardcoded the search term = 'jump' for simplicity)
If I do data2.read() I get what I believe is JSON (copy-pasting the url into a browser also returns this.)
window.yt.www.suggest.handleResponse(["jum",[["jumpstyle","","0"],["jump","","1"],["jump around","","2"],["jump on it","","3"],["jumper","","4"],["jump around house of pain","","5"],["jumper third eye blind","","6"],["jumbafund","","7"],["jump then fall taylor swift","","8"],["jumpstyle music","","9"]],"","","","","",{}])
I need to return this in a format that jquery autocomplete can read. I know it will work if I can get it into a list, for example, mylist = ['jumpstyle', 'jump', 'jump around', ...]
and then convert it back into json before returning it:
json.dumps(mylist)
(This works if I directly define mylist directly as written above.)
But I cannot get from the data that is returned by the URL to either a simple list (which I then convert back into JSON) or to some form of JSON that I can return directly to be used by auto complete.
I've tried, among other things,
j2 = json.loads(data2)
and
j2 = json.loads(data2.read())
Hope someone can help!