Eliminate garbled Japanese characters in JSON data acquired by API.

Problems that occurred

When I was practicing to acquire data with the youtube Data API, Japanese characters were garbled when I output the acquired data.

search.py


if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        response = youtube_search(
            q='official', part='snippet', type='video', max_count=1, order='date')

        CURRENT_DIR = os.getcwd()
        with codecs.open(CURRENT_DIR + '/' + 'data.json', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
            f.write(json.dumps(response, indent=2))

        print(json.dumps(response, indent=2))

    except HttpError as e:
        print("An HTTP error %d occurred: \n%s" % (e.resp.status, e.content))

result.


########################
##Omit irrelevant parts
########################
        "title": "\u4eee\u9762\u30e9\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\uff08\u65b0\uff09\uff08\u30b9\u30ab\u30a4\u30e9\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\uff09\u3000\u7b2c14\u8a71[\u516c\u5f0f]",
        "description": "\u4eee\u9762\u30e9\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\uff08\u65b0\uff09 \u7b2c14\u8a71\u300c\u30cf\u30a8\u30b8\u30b4\u30af\u30b8\u30f3 \u4eee\u9762\u30e9\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\u5371\u6a5f\u4e00\u9aea\u300d \u6d0b\u306f\u5bcc\u58eb\u6025\u30cf\u30a4\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9\u3067\u3001\u5148\u8f29\u30fb\u8c37\u6e90\u6b21\u90ce\u3068\u518d\u4f1a\u3002\u3060\u304c\u3001\u3053\u306e\u5730\u4e0b\u306b\u306f\u3001\u30cd\u30aa\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30ab\u30fc\u306e\u602a\u4eba\u30cf\u30a8\u30b8\u30b4\u30af ...",
        "thumbnails": {
          "default": {
            "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yTFJ-6NnUNY/default.jpg ",
            "width": 120,
            "height": 90
          },
          "medium": {
            "url"

How to solve

The option "ensure_ascii" of json.dumps () is True by default, that is, the setting to execute the process of automatically escaping when it contains ASCII characters is the default. Set this to False to prevent it from being escaped.

search.py


if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        response = youtube_search(
            q='official', part='snippet', type='video', max_count=1, order='date')

        CURRENT_DIR = os.getcwd()
        with codecs.open(CURRENT_DIR + '/' + 'data.json', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
            f.write(json.dumps(response, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))

        print(json.dumps(response, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))

    except HttpError as e:
        print("An HTTP error %d occurred: \n%s" % (e.resp.status, e.content))

result.


########################
##Omit irrelevant parts
########################
        "title": "Kamen Rider (New) (Sky Rider) Episode 14[official]",
        "description": "Kamen Rider (New) Episode 14 "Venus Flytrap Kamen Rider Close Call" Hiroshi reunites with his senior, Genjiro Tani, at Fuji-Q Highland. However, in this basement, the neo-shocker monster Venus flytrap...",
        "thumbnails": {
          "default": {
            "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yTFJ-6NnUNY/default.jpg ",

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