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I'm trying to retrieve some data from the FaceBook graph API. The API URL returns the following string:

access_token=AAABBBB&expires=5173539

The following Python code throws a ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded on the 4th line:

import json
import urllib2
data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
jdata = json.loads(data)
print jdata.access_token
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What makes you think the string "access_token=AAABBBB&expires=5173539" is JSON encoded? – S.Lott Feb 14 '12 at 19:39
S. Lott- Nothing - I don't know what what I was thinking – Yarin Feb 14 '12 at 19:46
Neither do we. Perhaps you should delete this question. – S.Lott Feb 14 '12 at 19:54

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If this is the actual body of the API response:

access_token=AAABBBB&expires=5173539

That's not JSON. It's just a query string, much like a GET request, and will need to be parsed in another way.

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Casey- thank you for pointing out the embarrassingly obvious- my bad – Yarin Feb 14 '12 at 19:44

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