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  1. @toddbirchard toddbirchard created this gist Jan 22, 2019.
    19 changes: 19 additions & 0 deletions json_extract.py
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    def extract_values(obj, key):
    """Recursively pull values of specified key from nested JSON."""
    arr = []

    def extract(obj, arr, key):
    """Return all matching values in an object."""
    if isinstance(obj, dict):
    for k, v in obj.items():
    if isinstance(v, (dict, list)):
    extract(v, arr, key)
    elif k == key:
    arr.append(v)
    elif isinstance(obj, list):
    for item in obj:
    extract(item, arr, key)
    return arr

    results = extract(obj, arr, key)
    return results