import json with open('comments-AKLrKMz-avE.json', 'r', encoding="utf8") as infile: j = json.load(infile) for item in j: try: with open('lijst.txt','a') as outfile: if (item["commentText"]): temp = item["commentText"] outfile.write(temp+"\n") except KeyError: print("wss een comment reply")