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+# Created in Python 3.6.5
+# Justgo129
+# May 10, 2018
+# adapted from
+'''
+https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12965203/how-to-get-json-from-webpage-into-python-script
+'''
+
+import urllib.request, json
+
+myUrl = "http://199.26.254.151:8080/mudrod-service/SearchVocab?concept=sst"
+
+def parse(myUrl):
+    with urllib.request.urlopen(myUrl) as url:
+        data = json.loads(url.read().decode())
+        print(json.dumps(data, indent=4))
+        
+parse(myUrl)
+
+# output:  
+# {
+#    "graph": {
+#        "ontology": [
+#           {
+#               "word": "sea surface temperature",
+ #              "weight": 1.0
+ #           },
+ #           {
+ #               "word": "ocean temperature",
+ #               "weight": 1.0
+ #           },
+ #          {
+ #               "word": "group high resolution sea surface temperature dataset",
+ #               "weight": 0.89
+ #         }, 
+ # (etc)...