rules:
  - id: python.requests.best-practice.use-response-json-shortcut
    patterns:
      - pattern-inside: import json; ...
      - pattern-inside: import requests; ...
      - pattern-inside: $RESP = requests.$METHOD(...); ...
      - pattern: json.loads($RESP.text)
    fix: $RESP.json()
    message: >-
      The requests library has a convenient shortcut for reading JSON responses,
      which lets you stop worrying about deserializing the response yourself.
    severity: WARNING
    metadata:
      references:
        - https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/quickstart/#json-response-content
      category: best-practice
      technology:
        - requests
    languages:
      - python