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Get the highest value of a specific field from an API reponse in Python

halfer

edited 28 Feb, 2022

code-8

asked 17 May, 2016

I make a GET to a API

I got this back

{"status":200,"message":"Success","data":[{"email_address":"admin@nyunets.com","password":"admin","account_id":1000,"account_type":"admin","name_prefix":null,"first_name":null,"middle_names":null,"last_name":"Admin","name_suffix":null,"non_person_name":false,"dba":"","display_name":"Admin","address1":"111 Park Ave","address2":"Floor 4","address3":"Suite 4011","city":"New York","state":"NY","postal_code":"10022","nation_code":"USA","phone1":"212-555-1212","phone2":"","phone3":"","time_zone_offset_from_utc":-5,"customer_type":2,"last_updated_utc_in_secs":1446127072},{"email_address":"mhn@nyu.com","password":"nyu123","account_id":1002,"account_type":"customer","name_prefix":"","first_name":"MHN","middle_names":"","last_name":"User","name_suffix":"","non_person_name":false,"dba":"","display_name":"MHNUser","address1":"3101 Knox St","address2":"","address3":"","city":"Dallas","state":"TX","postal_code":"75205","nation_code":"USA","phone1":"8623875097","phone2":"","phone3":"","time_zone_offset_from_utc":-5,"customer_type":2,"last_updated_utc_in_secs":1461166172},{"email_address":"mhn1@nyu.com","password":"nyu123","account_id":1004,"account_type":"customer","name_prefix":"","first_name":"MHN1","middle_names":"","last_name":"User","name_suffix":"","non_person_name":false,"dba":"","display_name":"MHN1User","address1":"1010 Rosedale Shopping Center","address2":"","address3":"","city":"Roseville","state":"MN","postal_code":"55113","nation_code":"USA","phone1":"8279856982","phone2":"","phone3":"","time_zone_offset_from_utc":-5,"customer_type":2,"last_updated_utc_in_secs":1461166417},{"email_address":"location@nyu.com","password":"nyu123","account_id":1005,"account_type":"customer","name_prefix":"","first_name":"BB","middle_names":"","last_name":"HH","name_suffix":"","non_person_name":false,"dba":"","display_name":"BBHH","address1":"9906 Beverly Dr","address2":"9906 Beverly Dr","address3":"","city":"Beverly Hills","state":"CA","postal_code":"90210","nation_code":"90210","phone1":"3105559906","phone2":"","phone3":"","time_zone_offset_from_utc":-5,"customer_type":1,"last_updated_utc_in_secs":1461167224},{"email_address":"mbn1@nyu.com","password":"nyu123","account_id":1003,"account_type":"customer","name_prefix":"","first_name":"MBN1","middle_names":"","last_name":"User","name_suffix":"","non_person_name":false,"dba":"","display_name":"MBN1User","address1":"3200 S Las Vegas Blvd","address2":"","address3":"","city":"Las Vegas","state":"NV","postal_code":"89109","nation_code":"USA","phone1":"9273597497","phone2":"","phone3":"","time_zone_offset_from_utc":-5,"customer_type":1,"last_updated_utc_in_secs":1461593233},{"email_address":"mbn@nyu.com","password":"nyu123","account_id":1001,"account_type":"customer","name_prefix":"","first_name":"MBN","middle_names":"","last_name":"User","name_suffix":"","non_person_name":false,"dba":"","display_name":"MBNUser","address1":"300 Concord Road","address2":"","address3":"","city":"Billerica","state":"MA","postal_code":"01821","nation_code":"USA","phone1":"8127085695","phone2":"","phone3":"","time_zone_offset_from_utc":-5,"customer_type":1,"last_updated_utc_in_secs":1461784499},{"email_address":"usermbn@nyu.com","password":"nyu123","account_id":1006,"account_type":"customer","name_prefix":"","first_name":"User","middle_names":"","last_name":"MBN","name_suffix":"","non_person_name":false,"dba":"","display_name":"UserMBN","address1":"75 Saint Alphonsus Street","address2":"","address3":"","city":"Boston","state":"MA","postal_code":"01821","nation_code":"USA","phone1":"8127085695","phone2":"","phone3":"","time_zone_offset_from_utc":-5,"customer_type":1,"last_updated_utc_in_secs":1462285561},{"email_address":"emile.barnaby@example.com","password":"nyu123","account_id":2000,"account_type":"customer","name_prefix":"","first_name":"emile","middle_names":"","last_name":"barnaby","name_suffix":"","non_person_name":false,"dba":"","display_name":"emilebarnaby","address1":"300 Concord Rd","address2":"","address3":"","city":"8239grandmaraisave","state":"manitoba","postal_code":"56798","nation_code":"USA","phone1":"414-140-1435","phone2":"414-140-1435","phone3":"414-140-1435","time_zone_offset_from_utc":-5,"customer_type":1,"last_updated_utc_in_secs":1462211572}]}

I have

import requests
import json

url = "http://api/users"
accounts = requests.get(url).json()
data = json.loads(accounts)

object_with_max_account_id = max(accounts['data'], key=lambda x: x['account_id'])
print(object_with_max_account_id['account_id'])

Goal

is to get the highest account id out of it.

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Answer

Usually we like to see what OPs try themselves, this is pretty much straightforward.

import requests

url = "http://api/users"
accounts = requests.get(url).json()

object_with_max_account_id = max(accounts['data'], key=lambda x: x['account_id'])
print(object_with_max_account_id['account_id'])
>>  2000

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