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JSON -- Error at Character 0

smoskowitz
12 - Quasar

Hello --

 

I've read every post with this error, but nothing seems to hit the nail on the head. I am trying to download and parse the data from this site: https://d1za7xib05bz10.cloudfront.net/taxdata.json.

 

Downloading is no problem, but when I try to parse using the JSON Parse tool -- I get the below error:

ConvError: JSON Parse (3): Error message: Invalid value. at character position: 0

 

Any advice would be most welcome.

 

Thanks,

Seth

 

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fmvizcaino
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @smoskowitz ,

 

I'm not sure what is really going on, maybe it is related to the encoding. I was able to interpret once by erasing and replacing the '{' and '}' so maybe that is something due to it.

 

Since I was not able to identify the real problem, I've created a workaround.

 

You need to run the workflow once to generate the file used in the dynamic input tool, then run once again and it should work.

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Best,

Fernando Vizcaino

smoskowitz
12 - Quasar

This is great @fmvizcaino! Thank you for your help!

kathryn_l
5 - Atom

Can you kindly post the template file?   having the same problem but not sure how-to setup the data source template.  Thanks

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