before a mod attempts to fold this into an older topic, hear me out. im just having one heck of a time trying to get this, while incredibly informative, json to post in an eyeball friendly manner. in a list, I’ve gotten it to display a single letter in each list item, display the number of letters …

Are you saying that the same API call using different VIN #s results in uniquely-formatted JSON responses? Or are you just having trouble parsing a single type of JSON response? If it’s the latter, what property, as an example, are you trying to access? Here’s a demo that will give you the Make & M…

Here is a link to my approach [image] Extract a LIST from JSON Questions about Thunkable Pedro, With the Web_API URL you sent, I was able to get to the latitude and longitude values and use them to build a new list. Notice how at each step I checked. the value. My exper…

Basically, all I’m trying to do is make an app that you type the vin number of a car in, and get a list of those provided data types, if available. I’m not sure what part is causing the object blocks so much trouble

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve gone through so many of the other threads before posting, so that I was absolutely sure that my problem was relatively unique enough to warrant a new thread. All I’m trying to do is either get a bulleted list of raw text or cram it into a list viewer This screenshot…

sorry for the delayed response, i was passed out, i finally gave up at midnight, in my time at least, but this is about as good as i could get it, the blocks are a mess, lol. i was planning on using the method shown below, and setting up a “for every item in list j” loop that increased a variable ,…

My apologies @bluefox2277k0zb , I misunderstood what you were trying to do. Thunkable has a built in JSON parser [image] You can read more about Thunkable Objects here https://docs.thunkable.com/objects

yeah, that just crashed when i tried before… but i dont remember if i did that exact thing… :sweat_smile:

If the Response is not correctly formatted JSON, it will blow up. That can often occur if there is an error in the Web API call or if the status is an unsuccessful code (400s). I will usually add if blocks to check both of those conditions first, but I wanted to highlight the Get Object block.

What I had done was, instead of a variable, used a label, and I think one time I tried using a list viewer, and then, I can’t remember what did what because I tried so many times, but one time it just made a list viewer with one letter per list viewer item. And the other time it just made a list vi…

Right, there are all sorts of issues that will occur when setting component properties (text, list, etc) to values the component can’t handle. Since Thunkable doesn’t really trap errors, the only way to keep your app stable is to verify the JSON property is of the kind you are expecting. Tedious, …

A way to parse this rather strange api

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bluerfox15uht9 January 7, 2021, 2:51am 6

This is the next thing I’m going to try out, take the stuff from the json, slam it I to a local db, and work from there… Probably not going to work, but I don’t give up, lol.

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