I've got a really stupid question but I can't seem to find any answer whatsoever. I have this JSON from an online weather API, the JSON looks like this:
{"coord":{"lon":4.4,"lat":51.22},"sys":{"type":1,"id":4839,"message":0.1065,"country":"Belgium","sunrise":1414218231,"sunset":1414254541},"weather":[{"id":701,"main":"Mist","description":"mist","icon":"50d"},{"id":310,"main":"Drizzle","description":"light intensity drizzle rain","icon":"09d"}],"base":"cmc stations","main":{"temp":286.3,"pressure":1019,"humidity":87,"temp_min":285.15,"temp_max":287.15},"wind":{"speed":3.1,"deg":210},"clouds":{"all":75},"dt":1414232888,"id":2803138,"name":"Antwerp","cod":200}
I want to use this JSON data in a datawarehouse tool Pentaho. I'm stuck though on how to get the right values.
Say I want to retrieve "country" for example, which is located inside "sys". How would I go about retrieving it using the dollar sign notation? I tried $.sys.country but that didn't work. I'm not sure how to translate this JSON structure to dollar sign notation.
Really hope someone can help, thanks in advance!
After some more surfing and googling I found the solution. I wasn't aware, but the specific data warehousing tool I use (Pentaho) uses JSONPath (http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/ - it's the official JSONPath website but Chrome gives me a Malware warning for some reason...) for getting data out of JSON. The syntax I used in my original question $.sys.country was right al along, there was just a problem in my Pentaho workflow (the REST step for getting the JSON was run more than once due to a number I didn't change). So now everything's working and I can get the values out of the JSON!
Links I found that solved my problem:
http://woodlouse.blogspot.fr/2013/02/how-to-create-pentaho-report-using-rest.html
http://jsonpath.curiousconcept.com/ (very handy JSONPath Expression
Tester I found)
Hope this can help other people with the same problem too!
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I'm trying to use a full page redirect with a direct integration and if I'm reading the documentation correctly I believe I should be able to generate the server side JSON to pass into RealexHpp.redirect. I know the code to generate this JSON is shared in a number of languages, but is the raw JSON output shared anywhere? I ask as the language I'm writing in isn't one of the ones covered, so I'm trying to make sure I get the output format correct.
I've tried re-creating the JSON structure based on what I believe the Java code displayed should output, but I'm obviously doing something wrong as its not working, would be really useful if I had some raw JSON to compare it against to make sure I'm getting the structure right.
Many thanks,
Raw JSON examples are not available, but we do have HTML POST examples (https://developer.globalpay.com/hpp/card-payments). You can build a JSON based on these.
This is how the JSON should look like: {"MERCHANT_ID":"MerchantId","ACCOUNT":"internet","ORDER_ID":"N6qsk4kYRZihmPrTXWYS6g","AMOUNT":"1999","CURRENCY":"EUR","TIMESTAMP":"20221121100715","AUTO_SETTLE_FLAG":"1","SHIPPING_CODE":"50001|Apartment 825","SHIPPING_CO":"US","HPP_SHIPPING_STREET1":"Apartment 825","HPP_SHIPPING_STREET2":"Complex 741","HPP_SHIPPING_STREET3":"House 963","HPP_SHIPPING_CITY":"Chicago","HPP_SHIPPING_STATE":"IL","HPP_SHIPPING_POSTALCODE":"50001","HPP_SHIPPING_COUNTRY":"840","BILLING_CODE":"59|123","BILLING_CO":"GB","HPP_BILLING_STREET1":"Flat 123","HPP_BILLING_STREET2":"House 456","HPP_BILLING_STREET3":"Unit 4","HPP_BILLING_CITY":"Halifax","HPP_BILLING_POSTALCODE":"W5 9HR","HPP_BILLING_COUNTRY":"826","HPP_CUSTOMER_EMAIL":"james.mason#example.com","HPP_CUSTOMER_PHONENUMBER_MOBILE":"44|07123456789","HPP_PHONE":"44|07123456789","HPP_ADDRESS_MATCH_INDICATOR":"FALSE","HPP_VERSION":"2","SHA1HASH":"308bb8dfbbfcc67c28d602d988ab104c3b08d012"}
I’m in the middle of making an Express app. It’s just a learning project.
I’m getting some info from an Anime api called jikan.me, it provides info about different Anime series like a picture url and synopsis.
For example one is at https://api.jikan.me/anime/16 .
Now, the jikan api might have a json endpoint at anime/1 but there's nothing at anime/2.
I want to find a list of all the numbers (https://api.jikan.me/anime/[numbers]) that actually contain endpoints.
I've tried simply going to https://api.jikan.me/anime but it returns error: No ID/Path Given.
I'm expecting there is likely no absolute answer to this problem but that I might learn something about server-side code along the way.
Where would I begin to look to find this info?
This is a bit late but, Jikan is an unofficial REST API for MyAnimeList. The IDs are respective to the IDs on MAL. For example; https://myanimelist.net/anime/1 can be parsed through https://api.jikan.moe/anime/1 but the ID 2 does not exist on MAL. It's a 404, hence that error.
To initially get some IDs, you can try the search endpoint.
Furthermore, I'll be releasing REST 2.2 quite soon (this month) which will give you the ability to parse from pages like these and thus you'll get another endpoint that provides a handful of IDs to get their data from.
Source: I'm the developer of Jikan
If it's not in the documentation it's probably information not available to you... a REST api needs to be specifically configured to offer certain endpoints, that number at the end might just be an ID that's searched for in an internal database and there's no way for the application to know if there's gonna be something there; all they can do is return an error message for you to handle as is the case here.
I'm working with the Behance API to build a plugin. I got the API key and built the URL to get my project list data in JSON format.
The weird thing is that, the JSON is not complete at all, there are many project missing, 14 missing to be specific.
Does someone have any idea?
Thanks in advance.
Found the solution here: https://help.behance.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/202357274-Number-of-Behance-API-request-results-limited-to-25-
It seems that by default the number of items is limited to 25. To get more you need to paginate adding a query get after the URL.
ex: http://www.behance.net/v2/users/gokhanaltinigne/projects?api_key=##&per_page=25&page=2
Recently came across the term JSONC in a YouTube API. I browsed the Web, but found nothing much about it. Can someone explain whether these two are the same or different?
There is also jsonc aka "JSON with comments", created by Microsoft and used by Visual Studio Code. The logic for it can be found here, alas without exhaustive specification (though I'd like to be proven wrong on this).
On top of that there is this project with an actual specification which is also called jsonc, but also does far more than just adding comments.
While there definitely is a use for these technologies, some critical thinking is advised. JSON containing comments is not JSON.
JSON-C seems to just be a variation of JSON mainly targeted at C development. I.e., from the open source docs, "JSON-C implements a reference counting object model that allows you to easily construct JSON objects in C, output them as JSON formatted strings and parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON objects."ref^1
From the YouTube API perspective (specifically, version 2, not the new version 3), The JSON-C response is just a condensed version of the JSON response (removing "duplicate, irrelevant or easily calculated values").ref^2
Why would the JSON response have "duplicate, irrelevant or easily calculated values" values anyway? Because it is converting the original ATOM XML format directly to JSON in a loseless conversion. You can find out more details here.
However, I would suggest using version 3 of the YouTube Data API. It is much easier to use. =)
JSONC is an open-source, Javascript API created by Tomás Corral Casas for reducing the size of the amount of JSON data that is transported between clients and servers. It uses two different approaches to achieve this, JSONC.compress and JSONC.pack. More information can be found on the JSONC Github page:
https://github.com/tcorral/JSONC
If you view the source of a Google+ profile page, it appears rather complex. It seems most of the data is kept in a huge JSON-like objects. However, they don't seem to be really JSON, since they don't get recognized when I try to decode them. I am hoping the format is more clear to other people here. How would you go about parsing it? It seems it would fairly trivial, if you know where to start.
Here is a sample profile, for example: http://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123
Here's a PHP API I'm working on. It can download and parse the data for a profile page and people's public relationships.
https://github.com/jmstriegel/php.googleplusapi
The JSON piece is a bit mangled. To generate valid JSON, you basically have to remove the first 5 characters that prevent XSRF attacks and then add in all the nulls that have been removed. Here's the code specific to handling parsing the weird Google Plus JSON responses:
https://github.com/jmstriegel/php.googleplusapi/blob/master/lib/GooglePlus/GoogleUtil.php
Call GoogleUtil::FetchGoogleJSON( $url ) and you'll get back a giant array that you can then pull data from. Using this, it should be trivial to make a proxy service to translate stuff into valid json(p) for you to use in your own apps.
I don't have access to Google+ yet, so I'll just answer the general question - that is, how to parse JSON.
JSON is just JavaScript, so parsing it is as simple as evaluating the script. To do this, use the eval() JavaScript function.
var obj = eval('{"JSON":"goes here"}');
Another option is to leverage a console tool. Popular modern browsers pretty much all have them. I recommend Firebug for Firefox in particular.
Using Firefox, log into Google+, then open the Firebug console. You can use the console's dir() command to create a browseable representation of the data. Ex:
console.dir(eval('{"JSON":"goes here"}'));
Sorry I can't be more specific about how to get a handle on Google+'s JSON in particular; without access to the service, this is about the best I can do blind. Good luck!
Thanks to Jason for the excellent php class which reads a profile page into an array.
I've used this class as a base and then parsed it, based upon Russell Beattie's python code from the original appspot rss feed application.
Code here
A few notes:
I use this to merge G+ and WP feeds, hence writing posts into an intermediate array ($items).
I have a convention of creating a pseudo title in Google Plus posts, by emboldening a line and adding two newlines before writing the post. The function getTitle strips this out as a better formatted title in my website and getSummary produces the rest of the post with duplicating the title.
It's made up of a number of parts, an object describing your picasa images, one describing the fields on your profile, one describing your friends.
Most of the long numbers are the internal IDs of people, posts and photos. For instance, my ID is 105249724614922381234. Other than that, it could be parsed if you needed to.