# A way to parse this rather strange api **URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/a-way-to-parse-this-rather-strange-api/1042302 **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X **Tags:** json **Created:** [January 7, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/a-way-to-parse-this-rather-strange-api/1042302 "2021-01-07T02:06:26Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 23
### Author: ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang) #### Post date: [January 7, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/a-way-to-parse-this-rather-strange-api/1042302/23 "2021-01-07T19:50:20Z")
A few topics related to this: > [@Cant get data from Cloud child](http://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-get-data-from-cloud-child/1042322/4): > > You could do something like this EXCEPT… Thunkable expected firebase lists to start with a 0 index. It looks like your lists start with 1. If the list index does not start with zero, Thunkable will crash. This is a REALLY crummy thing about Thunkable lists. Thunkable decided to use lists starting with 1. BUT thunkable is a graphic wrapper around Javascript, for which lists start with 0. So when comparing Firebase lists (zero based) with Thunkable Lists (base 1) you need to adjust. I… > [@\[Solved\] Working with cloud lists](http://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-working-with-cloud-lists/1040317): > > I’m wondering if anyone can answer my question related to using lists with the cloud variables. I have begun saving objects to lists firebase instead of airtable. it works quite nice. i am running into issues when i delete nodes from that list. this breaks ‘list actions’ in brief. I had tried to delete node 0 from the data ‘bucket’ above and it broke the following code. using debugging i could identify that the ‘break’ occurred on the very first check … > [@JSON Bound Data List Viewer - No More Cloning!](http://community.thunkable.com/t/json-bound-data-list-viewer-no-more-cloning/1041807): > > If you have been thunking for a while, you may have learned a few things: Data List Viewers and Data Grid Viewers are easy to design and execute quickly on devices Data List Viewer and Data Grid Viewer components cannot be bound to JSON All sorts of Web APIs and Firebase RealtimeDB (aka cloud variables) use JSON Airtable and Google Sheet data sources are generally slower and less reliable than Firebase/Cloud Variables Creating or cloning components for JSON lists are progressively slower and a… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.thunkable.com/t/a-way-to-parse-this-rather-strange-api/1042302)._