Python requests JSON API examples (GET, POST, errors)

Last updated 2026-05-20

Example JSON

Reference JSON payload returned by /users/1 (used in every snippet below).

{
  "id": 1,
  "firstName": "Emily",
  "lastName": "Johnson",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "username": "emilys",
  "image": "https://jsonexamples.com/image/200?text=User+1",
  "address": {
    "address": "626 Main Street",
    "city": "Phoenix",
    "state": "OK",
    "postalCode": "29920",
    "country": "United States"
  }
}

Request examples

import requests

user = requests.get('https://jsonexamples.com/users/1', timeout=5).json()
print(user['firstName'])

Try the live endpoint

Click below to call /users/1 from your browser.

GET/users/1
{
  "hint": "Click 'Run' to call the live endpoint"
}

Common variations

Async with httpx
{
  "snippet": "import httpx\n\nasync with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:\n    r = await client.get(\"https://jsonexamples.com/users/1\")\n    print(r.json())"
}
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