Can't connect to API and JSON Pretty the file : Forums : PythonAnywhere

So I've been learning python for a little bit now and I thought I would test out some cool ideas I had for an API search.

To explain what I want to do with this idea, I'm:

Trying to connect to the API and search for something. e.g. iPhone
I'm then grabbing all of the data and trying to Pretty it so that my search function can do a link by link search.
Then I'm doing a string search line by line and if that string is in that line I find what's between the two different strings. e.g "iPhone" and ":"
I'm then printing the lines to my websites page.

I've been trying to get my head around this but it's a lot harder then it seams. If someone knows what I'm doing wrong or knows of a different way for me to do this I would be more the grateful for your help.

Python code:

@app.route("/api", methods=['GET','POST'])
def APIlookup(myfile, sort=True, indents=4):
    global myfile
    if request.method == "POST":
        link = ""https://api.shodan.io/shodan/host/search?..."
        f = urllib.urlopen(link)
        myfile = f.read()
        text_file = open(os.path.join(app.root_path, "data/Write_it.txt"), "w")
        text_file.write((json.dumps(json.loads(myfile), sort_keys=sort, indent=indents)))
        test = (json.dumps(json.loads(myfile), sort_keys=sort, indent=indents))
        text_file.close()
        with open(os.path.join(app.root_path, "data/Write_it.txt"), "r") as input_file:
            for line in input_file:
                if '"str":' in line:
                    version2 = line
                    s = line
                    start = '"str":"'
                    end = '"'

                    result = re.search('%s(.*)%s' % (start, end), s).group(1)
                    socket.setdefaulttimeout( 2 )  # timeout in seconds

                    url = 'http://'+ result
                else:
                    fail = "Couldn't find any URLs\n"
                    return render_template("api.html", pressedSubmit="True", fail=fail)
            else:    
                return render_template("api.html", pressedSubmit="True", url=url)
    else:
        return render_template("api.html")

I started this Topic because I'm completely lost at this point and I thought this might be helpful for someone else that's currently or in the future trying to do something like this.

deleted-user-2211018 | 1 post | Dec. 13, 2017, 2:20 p.m. | permalink