How to use the eldonationtracker.extralife_IO.get_JSON function in eldonationtracker

def get_participants(self):
        """Get team participant info from API."""
        self.participant_list = []
        self.team_participant_json = extralife_IO.get_JSON(self.team_participant_url)
        if self.team_participant_json == 0:
            print("couldn't get to URL")
        elif len(self.team_participant_json) == 0:
            print("No team participants!")
        else:
            self.participant_list = [TeamParticipant(self.team_participant_json[participant]) for participant in range(0, len(self.team_participant_json))]