[ { "title": "Baby (Feat. Ludacris) - Justin Bieber", "description": "Baby (Feat. Ludacris) by Justin Bieber on Grooveshark", "link": "http://listen.grooveshark.com/s/Baby+Feat+Ludacris+/2Bqvdq", "pubDate": "Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:37:53 -0400", "pubTime": 1272436673, "TinyLink": "http://tinysong.com/d3wI", "SongID": "24447862", "SongName": "Baby (Feat. Ludacris)", "ArtistID": "1118876", "ArtistName": "Justin Bieber", "AlbumID": "4104002", "AlbumName": "My World (Part II);\nhttp://tinysong.com/gQsw", "LongLink": "11578982", "GroovesharkLink": "11578982", "Link": "http://tinysong.com/d3wI" }, { "title": "Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz", "description": "Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz on Grooveshark", "link": "http://listen.grooveshark.com/s/Feel+Good+Inc/1UksmI", "pubDate": "Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:25:30 -0400", "pubTime": 1272435930 } ] That is the current JSON object I have. I am now trying to iterate through it to get the import stuff like title and link. This is where I am having trouble I cant seem to get to the content that is past the ":" i tried doing dictionary way couldn't get it. def getLastSong(user,limit): base_url = 'http://gsuser.com/lastSong/' user_url = base_url + str(user) + '/' + str(limit) + "/" raw = urllib.urlopen(user_url) json_raw= raw.readlines() json_object = json.loads(json_raw[0]) #filtering and making it look good. gsongs = [] print json_object for song in json_object[0]: print song This code prints all the information before ":" Please help. ignore the Justin Bieber track :)