How to create a multilevel JSON in Python

Question

I'm consuming tweepy in order to get tweets and I want to push them in one JSON file like:

{
  "content": [
    {
      "text": "one tweet",
      "rts": 2,
      "favs": 17
    },
    {
      "text": "another tweet",
      "rts": 2,
      "favs": 17
    },
    {
      "text": "one last tweet",
      "rts": 2,
      "favs": 17
    }
  ]
}

So I use:

import json
json_serial = "tweet"
my_json = {
  'content': {
    "text": json_serial,
    "rt": '2',
    "favs": '3',
  }
}
print(json.dumps(my_json))

But this would give me one JSON per tweet and I want to know how can I create one JSON and put all the tweets in it.

Answer 1

I'm not entirely clear on what you're asking, does this help? How are you receiving the tweets, one at a time?

import json
json_serial = 'tweet'
my_json = { 
    'content': [
        {"text": "tweet one",
        "rt": '1',
        "favs":'3',
        },  
        {"text": "another tweet",
        "rt": '2',
        "favs":'9',
        },  
        {"text": "yet another tweet",
        "rt": '3',
        "favs":'6',
        },  
    ]   
}
print(json.dumps(my_json))


$ python json-python.py 
{"content": [{"rt": "2", "text": "tweet", "favs": "3"}, {"rt": "2", "text": "tweet", "favs": "3"}, {"rt": "2", "text": "tweet", "favs": "3"}]}