import json from datetime import datetime payload = """{\"attachments\": [\n {\n \"title\": \"{title}",\n \"pretext\": \"Did someone say M62!? \\ud83d\\ude27\",\n \"text\": \"\",\n \"mrkdwn_in\": [\"text\", \"pretext\"],\n \"footer\": \"ec2-54-246-210-90.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com\",\n \"footer_icon\": \"https://i.imgur.com/ADsI87O.png\",\n \"ts\": \"1570917914\",\n \"fields\": [\n\t\t \t{\n\t\t \"title\": \"{congestionTitle}\",\n\t\t \"value\": \"{congestionMessage}\",\n\t\t \"short\": false\n\t\t \t},\n\t\t \t{\n\t\t \"title\": \"{accidentTitle}\",\n\t\t \"value\": \"{accidentMessage}\",\n\t\t \"short\": false\n\t\t \t},\n\t \t\t{\n\t\t \"title\": \"\",\n\t\t \"value\": \"{end} \",\n\t\t \"short\": false\n\t\t \t}\n\t \t]\n }\n ]\n}""" timeNow = datetime.now().timestamp() jsonPayload = json.loads(payload) print(jsonPayload) jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['title'] = f'{messageTitle}' print(jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['title']) jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['ts'] = timeNow print(jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['ts']) jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['fields'][0]['title'] = f'{congestionTitle}' print(jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['fields'][0]['title']) jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['fields'][0]['value'] = f'{congestionMessage}' print(jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['fields'][0]['value']) jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['fields'][1]['title'] = f'{accidentTitle}' print(jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['fields'][1]['title']) jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['fields'][1]['value'] = f'{accidentMessage}' print(jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['fields'][1]['value']) jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['fields'][2]['value'] = f'{end}' print(jsonPayload['attachments'][0]['fields'][2]['value'])