import json
import urllib.request

jsonUrl = "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/planetoftheweb/98f35786733c8cccf81e/raw/f3dad774ed1fe20b36011b1261bb392ee759b867/data.json"
with urllib.request.urlopen(jsonUrl) as response:
   data = json.loads(response.read())
   print(data)

jsonUrl = "http://8ball.delegator.com/magic/JSON/blah"
with urllib.request.urlopen(jsonUrl) as response:
   data = json.loads(response.read())
   print(data)