Issues in Python with combining multiple JSON pages into single dictionary - python-3.x

Question

I'm trying to convert some API we had in JS to Python:
async function find_contact(api_key, email) {
var path = base_path + '/contacts';
var contacts = [];
var rootpath = path;
var result = await call_get_api(path, api_key)
.then(async function(result){
let total_pages = result.meta.total_pages;
console.log('Total Pages:' + total_pages);
contacts=result.contacts;
for(let page=2; page<=total_pages;page++){
path = rootpath + '?page='+page;
contacts = await call_get_api(path, api_key)
.then(async function(result){
return contacts.concat(result.contacts);
});
}
console.log('Total contacts: ' + contacts.length);
//TODO:: refine matching criteria.
let matching_contacts = contacts.filter(contact=> {
return email == contact.email}
);
console.log(matching_contacts.length + ' Matching contacts to ' + contact );
return matching_contacts;
});
This would result in us getting about 7 pages of data with 306 contacts. However, in Python, can't seem to get the concatenation of the subsequent pages (2-7)
def api_get_contacts(api_url, api_key):
url = api_url + "/contacts"
rooturl = url
api_auth = "Bearer " + api_key
headers = {
"Authorization": api_auth
}
response = requests.request("GET",url, headers=headers)
results = response.json()
total_pages = results["meta"]["total_pages"]
total_results = results["meta"]["total_entries"]
print(f"We are looking for {total_pages} and {total_results} contacts")
if total_pages > 1:
for page in range(2,total_pages+1,1):
print(f"Working on page {page}")
url = rooturl + "?page=" + str(page)
response = requests.request("GET",url, headers=headers)
data = response.json()
#results = results + data
#results.update(data) #does not work since it replaces
#results = {**results, **data} #does not work, same as update
#results = dict([(k,[results[k],data[k]]) for k in results])
have tried various methods, but they don't seem to work. the closest one was the last with the for loop, but instead of the result looking like:
'contacts': [{'id': 2343678, 'name': 'Andrew...
it comes out like
{'contacts': [[[[[[[{'id': 2343678, 'name': 'Andrew...