JSON_readDATA

import os
import os.path
from os.path import dirname, join
import json
import re

in_directory=("C:\\Users\\mbarg\\Google Drive\\ACADEMIA\\FeministDH for Susan\\6_JSON files Letters 1916-1923\\OPEN4")
out_directory=("C:\\Users\\mbarg\\Google Drive\\ACADEMIA\\FeministDH for Susan\\7_Transcriptions from JSON files\\\JSON_April27")

items=(os.listdir(in_directory))
for i in items:
    filename=os.path.join(in_directory, i)   
    indata=open(filename,"r", encoding="utf-8", errors="ignore")     
    jsondata = json.loads(indata.read())
    print(type(jsondata))
    print(len(jsondata))
    
    for n in range(len(jsondata)):
        try:
            outdata = (jsondata[n])
            if outdata:
                letter_content1=outdata.get('element')
                if letter_content1:
                    letter_content2=json.loads(letter_content1)
                    letter_content3=letter_content2.get('pages')
                    for r in range(len(letter_content3)):
                        letter_content4=letter_content3[r]['transcription']
           
                        letter_ID=str(i+str(n)+"."+str(r))  
            
                        if letter_content4:
                            print(letter_ID, ":", letter_content4)
                            cleanr = re.compile('<.*?>')
                            cleantext = re.sub(cleanr, ' ', letter_content4)
                            print(cleantext)
            
                            out_file_name=os.path.join(out_directory, str(letter_ID)+".txt")     
                            out_file=open(out_file_name, "w", encoding="utf-8")
            
                            toFile=str(cleantext)
                            out_file.write(toFile)
                            out_file.close()
                            continue
                        else:
                            continue
                else:
                    continue
        except KeyError:
            print("Not found.")
            continue