AWS Lambda Parse JSON (Unexpected token) - json

Question

I am trying to get a Lambda function to access an API and return the JSON.
API
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=2172797&appid=b1b15e88fa797225412429c1c50c122a
P.S This API ID is the demo one provided by OW.
Lambda Code
var jsonurl = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=2172797&appid=b1b15e88fa797225412429c1c50c122a";
var data = JSON.parse(jsonurl);
exports.handler = function(event, context) {
console.log(data);
context.done(null, data); // SUCCESS with message
};
Error
{
"errorMessage": "Unexpected token h",
"errorType": "SyntaxError",
"stackTrace": [
"Object.parse (native)",
"Object.<anonymous> (/var/task/index.js:3:17)",
"Module._compile (module.js:456:26)",
"Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)",
"Module.load (module.js:356:32)",
"Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)",
"Module.require (module.js:364:17)",
"require (module.js:380:17)"
]
}
Log output
START RequestId: 8ca0fbd1-eee5-11e5-b9dd-31048a8d5a45 Version: $LATEST
Syntax error in module 'index': SyntaxError
at Object.parse (native)
at Object.<anonymous> (/var/task/index.js:3:17)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
END RequestId: 8ca0fbd1-eee5-11e5-b9dd-31048a8d5a45
REPORT RequestId: 8ca0fbd1-eee5-11e5-b9dd-31048a8d5a45 Duration: 173.76 ms Billed Duration: 200 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 9 MB
Can anyone see the problem?
What I would like is for lambda to get the json and return it, so anyone looking at my API url will see the results from the Open Weather API

Answer 1

You are passing a URL to JSON.parse(), not a JSON string. First you need to go get the JSON data from the URL using something like http.get(). Perhaps check out the answers to this similar question: Parsing JSON data from a URL