import re

s = 'blahblah "key":"value","TargetCRS": "Target","TargetCRScode": "vertical Code","zzz": "aaaa" sadzxc "sss"'
r = re.compile(r'''"key"\s*:\s*"([^"]*)"''')

match = r.search(s)
if match:
	print match.group(1)