JSON Formatting error - json

Question

I am getting this error while trying to import this JSON into google bigquery table
file-00000000: JSON table encountered too many errors, giving up. Rows: 1; errors: 1. (error code: invalid)
JSON parsing error in row starting at position 0 at file: file-00000000. Start of array encountered without start of object. (error code: invalid)
This is the JSON
[{'instrument_token': 11192834, 'average_price': 8463.45, 'last_price': 8471.1, 'last_quantity': 75, 'buy_quantity': 1065150, 'volume': 5545950, 'depth': {'buy': [{'price': 8471.1, 'quantity': 300, 'orders': 131072}, {'price': 8471.0, 'quantity': 300, 'orders': 65536}, {'price': 8470.95, 'quantity': 150, 'orders': 65536}, {'price': 8470.85, 'quantity': 75, 'orders': 65536}, {'price': 8470.7, 'quantity': 225, 'orders': 65536}], 'sell': [{'price': 8471.5, 'quantity': 150, 'orders': 131072}, {'price': 8471.55, 'quantity': 375, 'orders': 327680}, {'price': 8471.8, 'quantity': 1050, 'orders': 65536}, {'price': 8472.0, 'quantity': 1050, 'orders': 327680}, {'price': 8472.1, 'quantity': 150, 'orders': 65536}]}, 'ohlc': {'high': 8484.1, 'close': 8336.45, 'low': 8422.35, 'open': 8432.75}, 'mode': 'quote', 'sell_quantity': 998475, 'tradeable': True, 'change': 1.6151959167271395}]
http://jsonformatter.org/ also gives parse error for this JSON block. Need help understanding where the formatting is wrong - this is the JSON from a rest API

Answer 1

This is not valid JSON. JSON uses double quotes, not single quotes. Also, True should be true.
If I had to guess, I would guess that this is Python code being passed off as JSON. :-)
I suspect that even once this is made into correct JSON, it's not the format Google BigQuery is expecting. From https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/data-formats#json_format, it looks like you should have a text file with one JSON object per line. Try just this:
{"mode": "quote", "tradeable": true, "last_quantity": 75, "buy_quantity": 1065150, "depth": {"buy": [{"quantity": 300, "orders": 131072, "price": 8471.1}, {"quantity": 300, "orders": 65536, "price": 8471.0}, {"quantity": 150, "orders": 65536, "price": 8470.95}, {"quantity": 75, "orders": 65536, "price": 8470.85}, {"quantity": 225, "orders": 65536, "price": 8470.7}], "sell": [{"quantity": 150, "orders": 131072, "price": 8471.5}, {"quantity": 375, "orders": 327680, "price": 8471.55}, {"quantity": 1050, "orders": 65536, "price": 8471.8}, {"quantity": 1050, "orders": 327680, "price": 8472.0}, {"quantity": 150, "orders": 65536, "price": 8472.1}]}, "change": 1.6151959167271395, "average_price": 8463.45, "ohlc": {"close": 8336.45, "high": 8484.1, "open": 8432.75, "low": 8422.35}, "instrument_token": 11192834, "last_price": 8471.1, "sell_quantity": 998475, "volume": 5545950}

Answer 2

OP has a valid JSON record but that wouldn't work with Biq Query, and here's why:
Google Big Query supports, JSON objects {}, one object per line. Check this out.
This basically means that you cannot supply list [] as json records and expect Big Query to detect it. You must always have one json object per line.
Here's a quick reference to what I am saying.
and there are more.
at last,
I highly recommend you read up the below and check out the link for more information on different forms of JSON structures, read this from the json.org