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