Python TypeError: unhashable type: 'dict'

Question

I am attempting to use an API request to gather weather data and ultimately save the data to a CSV file with pandas.to_csv. The API request is working, but I get this error when I am trying to convert the API response from a dictionary to pandas. Any tips for what I am doing wrong is greatly appreciated:

TypeError: unhashable type: 'dict'

The last line in the code is what is messed up and the shell is returning an error:

from urllib.request import urlopen

import json

import pandas as pd

api_key = ""

date = "20170601"

zip_code = "53711"

response = urlopen("http://api.wunderground.com/api/%s/history_%s/q/%s.json"     % (api_key, date, zip_code))

json_data = response.read().decode('utf-8', 'replace')

data = json.loads(json_data)

for observation in data['history']['observations']:

     print("Date/Time:    " + observation['date']['pretty'])

     print("Temperature:  " + observation['tempi'])

     print("Humidity:     " + observation['hum'])

df = pd.DataFrame([data], columns=data.keys())

The screen shot is what the data looks like in the shell output: 

Answer 1

1.Use json_normalize with column filtering.

2.Then, convert date column to to_datetime.

from pandas.io.json import json_normalize df = json_normalize(data['history']['observations']) df = df[['date.pretty','tempi','hum']] df['date.pretty'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date.pretty']) print (df.head()) date.pretty tempi hum 0 2017-06-01 00:15:00 49.8 83 1 2017-06-01 00:35:00 50.0 82 2 2017-06-01 00:55:00 49.1 85 3 2017-06-01 01:15:00 49.3 83 4 2017-06-01 01:35:00 48.2 85

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