Convert JSON to CSV

Introduction

In this project, you will learn how to convert JSON data to CSV format using Python. This is a common task in data science and development, as JSON is often used for API responses, while CSV is a popular format for storing tabular data.

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$ head result.csv
"IP","Status","Time","HttpReferer","HttpUserAgent","Request","HttpXForwardedFor","BodyBytesSent","RemoteUser","RequestLength"
"72.55.30.187","202","[2016-02-23 16:25:10]","http://www.google.cn/search?q=hive","Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)","GET /index.html HTTP/1.1","-","-","-","0"
"55.222.156.202","200","[2016-02-23 16:25:10]","-","Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)","GET /login.php HTTP/1.1","-","-","-","0"
"190.215.55.29","201","[2016-02-23 16:25:10]","-","Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)","GET /view.php HTTP/1.1","-","-","-","0"
"63.132.98.30","200","[2016-02-23 16:25:10]","-","Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)","GET /list.php HTTP/1.1","-","-","-","0"
"214.124.190.132","201","[2016-02-23 16:25:10]","-","Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11B511 Safari/9537.53","GET /login.php HTTP/1.1","-","-","-","0"
"98.215.187.30","202","[2016-02-23 16:25:10]","-","Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)","GET /upload.php HTTP/1.1","-","-","-","0"
"143.55.168.187","201","[2016-02-23 16:25:10]","-","Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)","GET /login.php HTTP/1.1","-","-","-","0"
"98.190.201.29","200","[2016-02-23 16:25:10]","-","Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.2.1; Galaxy Nexus Build/JOP40D) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Mobile Safari/535.19","GET /view.php HTTP/1.1","-","-","-","0"
"10.168.55.143","301","[2016-02-23 16:25:10]","http://cn.bing.com/search?q=spark mlib","Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)","GET /admin/login.php HTTP/1.1","-","-","-","0"

🎯 Tasks

In this project, you will learn:

• How to read and understand JSON data
• How to convert JSON data to a CSV file
• How to write the CSV file with the correct column names and formatting

🏆 Achievements

After completing this project, you will be able to:

• Efficiently convert JSON data obtained from APIs to a structured CSV format
• Understand the process of parsing JSON data and writing it to a CSV file
• Apply these skills to a variety of data processing and analysis tasks