JSON Parse Error

[arakshe]

I am trying to call this API and when I parse using the JSON Parse tool, I get this error: JSON Parse (3): Error message: Invalid value. at character position: 0

Does anyone have any advice?

[apathetichell]

Your error message is flagging something related to a doctype html in an html bracket  ---> what is this? is it a header above your json? Is it a second line of data/second api run (and perhaps an error or other message from your server)? Where is it in your file? Your json is fine.  

[arakshe]

I found out it was an issue with the url. I am now trying to get the second api call working, however, after I use the Json parse tool again, I am getting nulls. Do you know why this is happening?

[apathetichell]

hey --- so you probably don't need to recreate your auth twice (unless you have a second set of basic credentials for the second api call) ---> not 100% sure why you are seeing that - but I'd recommend two things 1) look in the download data before json parse tool ---> 2) see if you have two fields called download data (one from each download) --- and make sure you are looking in the right one. without seeing the download data -it's hard to tell. is response code 200? or 201?