import requests import json serverURL = 'http://localhost:8082/json_rpc' payload = json.dumps({ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "store", "params": {} }) def checkwalletrpccall(): headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'} resp = requests.get(serverURL, headers=headers, data=payload) output = json.loads(resp.text) print output # return output[u'result'][u'balance'], output[u'result'][u'unlocked_balance'] if __name__ == "__main__": checkwallet()