import re json_data = {'test1@email.com': {'age': 18, 'gender': 'Female', 'hospital': '', 'name': 'tesuser1', 'number': 41414, 'v1': False, 'v1Date': 0,'v2': False, 'v2Date': 0}} # Extract email address from dictionary key email = next(iter(json_data)) email_address = re.match(r"[^@]+@[^@]+\.[^@]+", email).group(0) #print(email_address) #print (json_data.keys()) print(list(json_data.keys())[0])