How to return the right number of elements in requests.get?

Question

Python

Hello. I'm using the API to one news resource that does not have the ability to set the number of returned articles through a parameter. The data is returned in json format.

Is it possible to somehow limit the amount of returned data in this case?

response = requests.get(url)
print(response.text) # возвращается строка с кучей данных. А хочу получить только один элемент в json-древе

Answer 1

Well, if the api does not provide for a choice of the number of articles, then it can be reduced through slices.
This example truncates the list of articles to the first 5 pieces.

response = requests.get(url)
response_json = response.json()
elements = response_json["result"][:5]

You can put it in a function and cut it off.
Here is an example, where response_json is your json response from the request, amount is how many articles to leave.

def cutter(response_json, amount):
    return response_json["result"][:amount]

Or whatever is more convenient for you.

Answer 2

response_json = response.json()
first_element = response_json[0]