How to reorder Data from yahoo finance(Python)?

I’m trying to write down a python script that allow me to get some items of financial statement from Yahoo.I’ve tried with yahoofinancials library, but I can get only an entire page of data: For istance,with this code:

from yahoofinancials import YahooFinancials
 yahoo_financials = YahooFinancials('AAPL')
 print(yahoo_financials.get_financial_stmts('annual', 'balance'))

I will get this:

{
    "balanceSheetHistory": {
        "AAPL": [
            {
                "2016-09-24": {
                    "otherCurrentLiab": 8080000000,
                    "otherCurrentAssets": 8283000000,
                    "goodWill": 5414000000,
                    "shortTermInvestments": 46671000000,
                    "longTermInvestments": 170430000000,
                    "cash": 20484000000,
                    "netTangibleAssets": 119629000000,
                    "totalAssets": 321686000000,
                    "otherLiab": 36074000000,
                    "totalStockholderEquity": 128249000000,
                    "inventory": 2132000000,
                    "retainedEarnings": 96364000000,
                    "intangibleAssets": 3206000000,
                    "totalCurrentAssets": 106869000000,
                    "otherStockholderEquity": 634000000,
                    "shortLongTermDebt": 11605000000,
                    "propertyPlantEquipment": 27010000000,
                    "deferredLongTermLiab": 2930000000,
                    "netReceivables": 29299000000,
                    "otherAssets": 8757000000,
                    "longTermDebt": 75427000000,
                    "totalLiab": 193437000000,
                    "commonStock": 31251000000,
                    "accountsPayable": 59321000000,
                    "totalCurrentLiabilities": 79006000000
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

I want to get every single element, such as “cash” and put it in a variable or an array with all these data,in order to get the single number. So,for example, if I would get “cash”,I would have a variable or an array/list that allow me to get the number(in this case 20484000000,for cash). I hope I’ve made myself clear. Someone knows how to do it?Thank you.

Answer

Since the output is in json format we must work with json.

from yahoofinancials import YahooFinancials
import json
yahoo_financials = YahooFinancials('AAPL')
w = yahoo_financials.get_financial_stmts('annual', 'balance')
print(w["balanceSheetHistory"]["AAPL"][2]['2019-09-28']['totalLiab'])

change ‘totalLiab’ to get desired data and to change ‘2019-09-28’ you must also change [2].