How to convert XML to JSON in Python

If you are yawning at the very prospect of coding a means to convert between XML and JSON, then well, I can’t really blame you. I have your salvation, however, in the form of an API, one that will perform this conversion for you effortlessly. You just need to set it up with a few lines of code.

Let’s install our API client first; use this command for pip install:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Now for calling convert_data_xml_to_json. To do this, we start by stating our API key, creating our API instance, and then providing our function with an input file. See below.

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ConvertDataApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Convert XML to JSON conversion
api_response = api_instance.convert_data_xml_to_json(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ConvertDataApi->convert_data_xml_to_json: %s\n" % e)

And you’re done!