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    <p>So I'm retrieving some JSON data from a website and using the standard urlopen() from urllib2:</p> <p>Code:</p> <pre><code>url = 'http://api.nytimes.com/svc/politics/v3/us/legislative/congress/senate/votes/2011-12-14/2011-12-14.json?api-key=%s' % (api_key,) print urlopen(url).read() </code></pre> <p>Result: </p> <pre><code>{ "status":"OK", "copyright":"Copyright (c) 2011 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.", "results": { "chamber": "Senate", "start_date": "2011-12-14", "end_date": "2011-12-14", "num_results": "0", "votes": [ ] } } </code></pre> <p>This result is wrong. If I enter the url manually into my browser:</p> <p>Entering:</p> <pre><code>http://api.nytimes.com/svc/politics/v3/us/legislative/congress/senate/votes/2011-12-14/2011-12-14.json?api-key=a55a8988c8102a532221d2d465ca010a:1:65328279 </code></pre> <p>I get:</p> <pre><code>{ "status":"OK", "copyright":"Copyright (c) 2011 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.", "results": { "chamber": "Senate", "start_date": "2011-12-14", "end_date": "2011-12-14", "num_results": "1", "votes": [ { "congress": "112", "session": "1", "roll_call": "228", "vote_uri":"http://api.nytimes.com/svc/politics/v3/us/legislative/congress/112/senate/sessions/1/votes/228.json", "bill_number": "S.J.Res.24", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "description": "Joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.", "vote_type": "1/2", "date": "2011-12-14", "time": "11:09:00", "result": "Joint Resolution Defeated", "democratic": { "yes": "20", "no": "31", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0", "majority_position": "No" }, "republican": { "yes": "1", "no": "46", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0", "majority_position": "No" }, "independent": { "yes": "0", "no": "2", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0" }, "total": { "yes": "21", "no": "79", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0" } } ] } </code></pre> <p>}</p> <p>Also, when I retrieve the data using CURL I get:</p> <pre><code>$curl http://api.nytimes.com/svc/politics/v3/us/legislative/congress/senate/votes/2011-12-14/2011-12-14.json?api-key=a55a8988c8102a532221d2d465ca010a:1:65328279 { "status":"OK", "copyright":"Copyright (c) 2011 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.", "results": { "chamber": "Senate", "start_date": "2011-12-14", "end_date": "2011-12-14", "num_results": "2", "votes": [ { "congress": "112", "session": "1", "roll_call": "229", "vote_uri": "http://api.nytimes.com/svc/politics/v3/us/legislative/congress/112/senate/sessions/1/votes/229.json", "bill_number": "S.J.Res.10", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "description": "Joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.", "vote_type": "2/3", "date": "2011-12-14", "time": "11:39:00", "result": "Joint Resolution Defeated", "democratic": { "yes": "0", "no": "51", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0", "majority_position": "No" }, "republican": { "yes": "47", "no": "0", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0", "majority_position": "Yes" }, "independent": { "yes": "0", "no": "2", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0" }, "total": { "yes": "47", "no": "53", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0" } }, { "congress": "112", "session": "1", "roll_call": "228", "vote_uri": "http://api.nytimes.com/svc/politics/v3/us/legislative/congress/112/senate/sessions/1/votes/228.json", "bill_number": "S.J.Res.24", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "description": "Joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.", "vote_type": "1/2", "date": "2011-12-14", "time": "11:09:00", "result": "Joint Resolution Defeated", "democratic": { "yes": "20", "no": "31", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0", "majority_position": "No" }, "republican": { "yes": "1", "no": "46", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0", "majority_position": "No" }, "independent": { "yes": "0", "no": "2", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0" }, "total": { "yes": "21", "no": "79", "present": "0", "not_voting": "0" } } ] } </code></pre> <p>}</p> <p>So that's 3 different results for the same web request. What's the issue here? Is there some caching mechanism that I'm overlooking or am I missing something?</p>
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    1. COsee if changing user agent in urlopen helps.
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    2. COuse fiddler and check what is different about the requests....
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    3. COIs it just me (or a typo) that the urlopen url has "2011-12-14s.json" and the other 2 have "2011-12-14.json"?
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