Requests - Python Parsing JSON error - load with codecs -

i trying parse data api python , requests.

so reference python codecs , utf-8 bom error

listed multiple references above have updated script each error received.

import requests import codecs import json  r = requests.get(     "https://api.tatts.com/sales/vmax/web/data/racing/2017/4/05/mr/") data = json.load(codecs.open(r.json(), 'utf-8-sig')) # reads = r.json() # data = reads.decode('utf-8-sig')  open('data.json', 'w') f:     json.dump(data, f) 

i want save response api https://api.tatts.com/sales/vmax/web/data/racing/2017/4/05/mr/ file.json

initially received below applied codecs resolution reference answer.

json.decoder.jsondecodeerror: unexpected utf-8 bom (decode using utf-8-sig): line 1 column 1 (char 0) 

this resolution answer.

data = json.load(codecs.open(r.json(), 'utf-8-sig')) 

now receive error that

typeerror: expected str, bytes or os.pathlike object, not dict 

however cannot resolve typerror because need load using codecs stop ut8-sig error.

how can parse , write requests , avoid both errors?

edit

updated using below answer, fails write file disk.

import requests import codecs import json  r = requests.get(     "https://api.tatts.com/sales/vmax/web/data/racing/2017/4/05/mr/") data = json.load(codecs.open(r.text, 'r', 'utf-8-sig'))  open('data.json', 'w') f:     f.write(data) 

answer

import requests import json  r = requests.get(     "https://api.tatts.com/sales/vmax/web/data/racing/2017/4/05/mr/")  output = open('data.json', 'w') output.write(r.text) 

codecs.open opens local file using given encoding. codecs.decode convert in-memory object. think you're after:

data = json.load(codecs.decode(r.text, 'utf-8-sig')) 

note i've used r.text means requests library not attempt parsing of own. unless want modify data before saving though, save response directly disk:

with open('data.json', 'w') f:     f.write(r.text)