<subsonic-response xmlns="http://subsonic.org/restapi" status="ok" version="1.16.1" type="navidrome" serverVersion="0.50.2 (823bef54)" openSubsonic="true"><searchResult3><song id="3b9d81b5def61a60705b9b89611a217f" parent="03693dd7b835740421cc1d6a4da201f3" isDir="false" title="Good Day featuring ScHoolboy Q" album="I Am &gt; I Was" artist="21 Savage" track="11" year="2018" genre="Rap" coverArt="mf-3b9d81b5def61a60705b9b89611a217f_5c1d3668" size="9716623" contentType="audio/mpeg" suffix="mp3" duration="242" bitRate="320" path="21 Savage/I Am &gt; I Was/11 - Good Day featuring ScHoolboy Q.mp3" created="2024-01-08T16:40:53.026754212Z" albumId="03693dd7b835740421cc1d6a4da201f3" artistId="1ae1d36568c651d53f78f427f05e9766" type="music" isVideo="false" bpm="0" comment=""><genres name="Rap"></genres></song></searchResult3></subsonic-response>

Which I got from an API call

I would like to be able to interact with it so I can check the artist and then pull the id

I thought this would be as simple as calling a key on an array (wrong terminology I know. Dict?), how wrong was I?

Having done some searching, I'm in the process of figuring out how xml.etree.ElementTree works. But it feels so overly complicated for what I'm trying to do? Am I going down the wrong path?

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think I can get a JSON response, would I then be able to do json[element] or would I still need to parse left, right and centre through complication valley?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

JSON would be a lot easier. Once you've parsed it, you've got a little structure of dicts, lists, and primitives. So you'd be able to directly index things like you're hoping.

Just to give an example:

>>> import json
>>> parsed = json.loads('{"foo":"a", "bar":"b", " baz":"c"}')
>>> parsed["foo"]
'a'

So, in short, yes, JSON would do what you're hoping.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you very much!

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Glad to help!