import json import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET with open('hentainexus_1_001.png.json') as json_file: data = json.load(json_file) artist = data['artist'] book = data['book'] category = data['category'] count = data['count'] description = data['description'] event = data['event'] extension = data['extension'] filename = data['filename'] gallery_id = data['gallery_id'] lang = data['lang'] language = data['language'] magazine = data['magazine'] num = data['num'] parody = data['parody'] publisher = data['publisher'] subcategory = data['gallery'] tags = data['tags'] thumbnail = None title = data['title'] title_conventional = data['title_conventional'] bookType = data['type'] comicinfo = ET.Element('ComicInfo')