Byte Error when working with APIs

[Oshadha]

I was working with an API: Returns Json array of Tags

r = requests.get('https://cataas.com/api/tags')
    if r.status_code == 200:
        with open(f'{log_Dir}Cat tags.json', 'w') as file:
            json.dump(r.content, file)

This code returns an error:

Error:
raise TypeError(f'Object of type {o.__class__.__name__} '
TypeError: Object of type bytes is not JSON serializable

I think it is because the data is retrieved in Bytes??
When I try print(type(r.content)) within the function:

Output:
<class 'bytes'>

How is this possible, since when I visit the above url, I get a string of an array?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[ndc85430]

Why aren't you using r.json() to deserialise the body into a Python data structure?

[deanhystad]

Instead of r.content which returns bytes, use r.text which returns a str.

However I do not understand why you are using json.dump at all. r.text is a json format str. json.dump() converts an object to a json format str. If you just want to write the json str from request to a file, just write r.text to the file. If you aren't converting json to an object or an object to json, there is no reason to use the json library.