pandas: pd.read_json yields: OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

data = '/Users/davidleifer/Desktop/Geog500/thesis/data/merged-file.json'
df = pd.read_json(data, lines=True)

Problem description

The JSON file contains Twitter data scraped using their API. I’ve limited the files to 10,000 tweets per file. I clean the files using this process:

1. Merge files in directory using: cat * > merged-file.json
2. Remove blank lines in Sublime Text using Find and Replace: ^\n.

Here is an example Tweet (one tweet per line):

{“created_at”:“Thu Nov 02 08:08:01 +0000 2017”,“id”:925997914136002562,“id_str”:“925997914136002562”,“text”:“#RussianGate #FollowTheFacts #Resist #FakePresident #GOP #War #Vote #ClimateChange #Peace #Animals #Women https://t.co/xe7AEdod1Y”,“display_text_range”:[0,105],“source”:“\u003ca href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow"\u003eTwitter Web Client\u003c/a\u003e”,“truncated”:false,“in_reply_to_status_id”:null,“in_reply_to_status_id_str”:null,“in_reply_to_user_id”:null,“in_reply_to_user_id_str”:null,“in_reply_to_screen_name”:null,“user”:{“id”:760436942,“id_str”:“760436942”,“name”:“Athoughtz”,“screen_name”:“athoughtz”,“location”:“United States”,“url”:null,“description”:“#RussianGate #FollowTheFacts #Resist #FakePresident #GOP #War #Vote #ClimateChange #Peace #Animals #Women”,“translator_type”:“none”,“protected”:false,“verified”:false,“followers_count”:5063,“friends_count”:5064,“listed_count”:142,“favourites_count”:659,“statuses_count”:62057,“created_at”:“Thu Aug 16 00:11:12 +0000 2012”,“utc_offset”:-25200,“time_zone”:“Arizona”,“geo_enabled”:false,“lang”:“en”,“contributors_enabled”:false,“is_translator”:false,“profile_background_color”:“C0DEED”,“profile_background_image_url”:“http://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png”,“profile_background_image_url_https”:“https://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png”,“profile_background_tile”:false,“profile_link_color”:“1DA1F2”,“profile_sidebar_border_color”:“C0DEED”,“profile_sidebar_fill_color”:“DDEEF6”,“profile_text_color”:“333333”,“profile_use_background_image”:true,“profile_image_url”:“http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000835488491/565d1bd43c8b0a615b8a39887e52ef2c_normal.jpeg”,“profile_image_url_https”:“https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000835488491/565d1bd43c8b0a615b8a39887e52ef2c_normal.jpeg”,“default_profile”:true,“default_profile_image”:false,“following”:null,“follow_request_sent”:null,“notifications”:null},“geo”:null,“coordinates”:null,“place”:null,“contributors”:null,“is_quote_status”:false,“quote_count”:0,“reply_count”:0,“retweet_count”:0,“favorite_count”:0,“entities”:{“hashtags”:[{“text”:“RussianGate”,“indices”:[0,12]},{“text”:“FollowTheFacts”,“indices”:[13,28]},{“text”:“Resist”,“indices”:[29,36]},{“text”:“FakePresident”,“indices”:[37,51]},{“text”:“GOP”,“indices”:[52,56]},{“text”:“War”,“indices”:[57,61]},{“text”:“Vote”,“indices”:[62,67]},{“text”:“ClimateChange”,“indices”:[68,82]},{“text”:“Peace”,“indices”:[83,89]},{“text”:“Animals”,“indices”:[90,98]},{“text”:“Women”,“indices”:[99,105]}],“urls”:[],“user_mentions”:[],“symbols”:[],“media”:[{“id”:925997885778378752,“id_str”:“925997885778378752”,“indices”:[106,129],“media_url”:“http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNnOK8SVQAAUS6Z.jpg”,“media_url_https”:“https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNnOK8SVQAAUS6Z.jpg”,“url”:“https://t.co/xe7AEdod1Y”,“display_url”:“pic.twitter.com/xe7AEdod1Y”,“expanded_url”:“https://twitter.com/athoughtz/status/925997914136002562/photo/1”,“type”:“photo”,“sizes”:{“medium”:{“w”:600,“h”:585,“resize”:“fit”},“small”:{“w”:600,“h”:585,“resize”:“fit”},“thumb”:{“w”:150,“h”:150,“resize”:“crop”},“large”:{“w”:600,“h”:585,“resize”:“fit”}}}]},“extended_entities”:{“media”:[{“id”:925997885778378752,“id_str”:“925997885778378752”,“indices”:[106,129],“media_url”:“http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNnOK8SVQAAUS6Z.jpg”,“media_url_https”:“https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNnOK8SVQAAUS6Z.jpg”,“url”:“https://t.co/xe7AEdod1Y”,“display_url”:“pic.twitter.com/xe7AEdod1Y”,“expanded_url”:“https://twitter.com/athoughtz/status/925997914136002562/photo/1”,“type”:“photo”,“sizes”:{“medium”:{“w”:600,“h”:585,“resize”:“fit”},“small”:{“w”:600,“h”:585,“resize”:“fit”},“thumb”:{“w”:150,“h”:150,“resize”:“crop”},“large”:{“w”:600,“h”:585,“resize”:“fit”}}}]},“favorited”:false,“retweeted”:false,“possibly_sensitive”:false,“filter_level”:“low”,“lang”:“und”,“timestamp_ms”:“1509610081596”} 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I get this error:

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OSError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-4-5322def5edd5> in <module>() ----> 1 df = pd.read_json(data, lines=True)

/Users/davidleifer/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/io/json.py in read_json(path_or_buf, orient, typ, dtype, convert_axes, convert_dates, keep_default_dates, numpy, precise_float, date_unit, encoding, lines) 214 if exists: 215 with _get_handle(filepath_or_buffer, ‘r’, encoding=encoding) as fh: –> 216 json = fh.read() 217 else: 218 json = filepath_or_buffer

OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

Expected Output

Loading the JSON into a pandas dataframe.

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit: None python: 3.5.2.final.0 python-bits: 64 OS: Darwin OS-release: 16.7.0 machine: x86_64 processor: i386 byteorder: little LC_ALL: None LANG: en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE: en_US.UTF-8

pandas: 0.19.0 nose: 1.3.7 pip: 9.0.1 setuptools: 36.2.7 Cython: 0.24 numpy: 1.13.2 scipy: 0.19.1 statsmodels: 0.6.1 xarray: None IPython: 4.2.0 sphinx: 1.4.1 patsy: 0.4.1 dateutil: 2.5.3 pytz: 2016.4 blosc: None bottleneck: 1.1.0 tables: 3.3.0 numexpr: 2.6.2 matplotlib: 1.5.1 openpyxl: 2.3.2 xlrd: 1.0.0 xlwt: 1.1.2 xlsxwriter: 0.9.2 lxml: 3.6.0 bs4: None html5lib: 0.999999999 httplib2: 0.9.2 apiclient: 1.5.1 sqlalchemy: 1.0.13 pymysql: None psycopg2: 2.6.2 (dt dec pq3 ext lo64) jinja2: 2.8 boto: 2.48.0 pandas_datareader: None