# How to create nutrition app with ocr scanner?

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-create-nutrition-app-with-ocr-scanner/1113955
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [February 21, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-create-nutrition-app-with-ocr-scanner/1113955 "2021-02-21T17:28:00Z")
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### 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: [March 4, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-create-nutrition-app-with-ocr-scanner/1113955/74 "2021-03-04T01:51:23Z")

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I just posted a tutorial that shows how to correctly parse JSON. I hope it’s helpful.

> [@API JSON Tutorial (Video)](https://community.thunkable.com/t/api-json-tutorial-video/1140575):
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> Using APIs in Thunkable and understanding how to parse JSON to get certain data from the API response is both a popular and a difficult aspect of using Thunkable. It’s not so much difficult because of Thunkable but because every API url format is different, every API documentation is different, every JSON response is different, etc. In this video, I spend a lot of time talking you through some best practices. It’s not a quick tutorial because if you rush through setting up an API in Thunkable, …

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