Writing API Results to CSV in Python

Question

I am looking for some assistance with writing API results to a .CSV file using Python. At this point, I'm successfully writing to .CSV, but I cannot seem to nail down the code behind the .CSV format I'm looking for, which is the standard one field = one column format.

Any help is appreciated! Details are below. Thanks!

My code:

import requests
import json
import csv

urlcomp = 'http://url_ommitted/api/reports/completion?status=COMPLETED&from=2016-06-01&to=2016-08-06'
headers = {'authorization': "Basic API Key Ommitted", 'accept': "application/json", 'accept': "text/csv"}

## API Call to retrieve report
rcomp = requests.get(urlcomp, headers=headers)

## API Results
data = rcomp.text

## Write API Results to CSV
with open('C:\_Python\\testCompletionReport.csv', "wb") as csvFile:
    writer = csv.writer(csvFile, delimiter=',')
    for line in data:
        writer.writerow(line)

The code above creates a .CSV with the correct output, but it's writing each character from the API results into a new cell in Column A of the output file. Screenshot below:

I've also attempted the code below, which writes the entire API result set into a single cell in the .CSV output file.

Code:

data = rcomp.text

with open('C:\_Python\\CompletionReportOutput.csv', 'wb') as csvFile:
    writer = csv.writer(csvFile, delimiter = ',')
    writer.writerow([data])

Output:

Below is a screenshot of some sample API result data returned from my call:

Example of what I'm looking for in the final .CSV output file:

EDIT - Sample API Response:

"PACKAGE CREATED","PACKAGE ID","PACKAGE NAME","PACKAGE STATUS","PACKAGE TRASHED","PACKAGE UPDATED","SENDER ID","SENDER NAME","SENDER COMPANY","SENDER CREATED","SENDER EMAIL","SENDER FIRSTNAME","SENDER LANGUAGE","SENDER LASTNAME","SENDER PHONE","SENDER TITLE","SENDER UPDATED","SENDER ACTIVATED","SENDER LOCKED","SENDER STATUS","SENDER TYPE" "Thu Aug 04 14:52:57 CDT 2016","ulw5MTQo8WjBfoCTKqz9LNCFpV4=","TestOne to TestTwo - Flatten PDF Removed","COMPLETED","false","Thu Aug 04 14:53:30 CDT 2016","tKpohv2kZ2oU","","","2016-08-03 14:12:06.904","[email protected]","John","en","Smith","","","2016-08-03 14:12:06.942118","null","null","INVITED","REGULAR" "Thu Aug 04 09:39:22 CDT 2016","IJV3U_yjPlxS-TVQgMrNgVUUSss=","TestOne to TestTwo - Email Test","COMPLETED","false","Thu Aug 04 10:11:29 CDT 2016","tKpohv2kZ2oU","","","2016-08-03 14:12:06.904","[email protected]","John","en","Smith","","","2016-08-03 14:12:06.942118","null","null","INVITED","REGULAR"

SECOND EDIT - Output from Lee's suggestion:

Solution 1

So, I eventually stumbled onto a solution. Not sure if this is the "correct" way of handling this, but the code below wrote the API results directly into a .CSV with the correct column formatting.

# Get JSON Data
rcomp = requests.get(urlcomp, headers=headers)

# Write to .CSV
f = open('C:\_Python\Two\\newfile.csv', "w")
f.write(rcomp.text)
f.close()

Solution 2

csvFile = open('C:\_Python\\CompletionReportOutput.csv', 'w')

writer = csv.writer(csvFile, delimiter = ' ')

for row in data.split('\n'):
    writer.writerow(row)

Comments

[roganjosh]

I doubt that this alone would solve the issue. You'd then need to split the row surely? Without the API response, I don't think you can answer this

[jdgaub]

This definitely moved it in the right direction. The fields are writing to the correct columns, but there are some spacing and " character issues. Output added to original question. Thanks!

[harshil9968]

Can you try and use writer.writerow(row.replace('"',''))

[Hamed Baziyad]

I think some explanation for executed changes is needed.