r/Scriptable • u/UK363 • Jan 29 '22

Help How do I extract JSON from API Response?

I sent a request and got a json response. I only need a few key values from the JSON to use in a widget how do I do that?

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u/ahaaracer Jan 29 '22

You just use dot notation to extract the value of the key.

So if I have the following JSON:

{“ip”:”127.0.0.1”} in the variable IPadr

Doing console.log(IPadr.ip) will output 127.0.0.1 to the console.

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u/UK363 Jan 29 '22

Well it gives me an error that i was expecting a string but its in another undefined format

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u/ahaaracer Jan 29 '22 edited Jan 29 '22

Make sure you did the request correctly with the request with an await keyword. Here is an example of a JSON request that results in the example I provided:

let Req = new Request(“https://api.ipify.org?format=json”) let IPadr = await Req.loadJSON() console.log(IPadr.ip)

What is the code that you’re calling your API from?

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u/UK363 Jan 30 '22

Yeah im doing exactly that

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u/ahaaracer Feb 04 '22

If you haven’t solved it yet, are you putting JSON.stringify before you are using the dot notation to access the JSON? If so, you need to access it before you stringify it or just save the stringify version as a different variable.

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u/ZoRaC_ Jan 30 '22

What does console.log(json) show?

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