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+// yt - A fully featured command line YouTube client
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2025 Benedikt Peetz <benedikt.peetz@b-peetz.de>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+//
+// This file is part of Yt.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the License along with this program.
+// If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt>.
+
+use rustpython::vm::{
+    PyRef, VirtualMachine,
+    builtins::{PyDict, PyStr},
+};
+
+pub type InfoJson = serde_json::Map<String, serde_json::Value>;
+
+pub fn json_loads(
+    input: serde_json::Map<String, serde_json::Value>,
+    vm: &VirtualMachine,
+) -> PyRef<PyDict> {
+    let json = vm.import("json", 0).expect("Module exists");
+    let loads = json.get_attr("loads", vm).expect("Method exists");
+    let self_str = serde_json::to_string(&serde_json::Value::Object(input)).expect("Vaild json");
+    let dict = loads
+        .call((self_str,), vm)
+        .expect("Vaild json is always a valid dict");
+
+    dict.downcast().expect("Should always be a dict")
+}
+
+/// # Panics
+/// If expectation about python operations fail.
+pub fn json_dumps(
+    input: PyRef<PyDict>,
+    vm: &VirtualMachine,
+) -> serde_json::Map<String, serde_json::Value> {
+    let json = vm.import("json", 0).expect("Module exists");
+    let dumps = json.get_attr("dumps", vm).expect("Method exists");
+    let dict = dumps
+        .call((input,), vm)
+        .map_err(|err| vm.print_exception(err))
+        .expect("Might not always work, but for our dicts it works");
+
+    let string: PyRef<PyStr> = dict.downcast().expect("Should always be a string");
+
+    let real_string = string.to_str().expect("Should be valid utf8");
+
+    // {
+    //     let mut file = File::create("debug.dump.json").unwrap();
+    //     write!(file, "{}", real_string).unwrap();
+    // }
+
+    let value: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(real_string).expect("Should be valid json");
+
+    match value {
+        serde_json::Value::Object(map) => map,
+        _ => unreachable!("These should not be json.dumps output"),
+    }
+}