# Returning Nested Properties within CoinMarketCap API

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/returning-nested-properties-within-coinmarketcap-api/1901489
**Category:** Web API's
**Tags:** beginner, help, webapi
**Created:** [May 30, 2022, 2:35am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/returning-nested-properties-within-coinmarketcap-api/1901489 "2022-05-30T02:35:58Z")
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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: [May 30, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/returning-nested-properties-within-coinmarketcap-api/1901489/2 "2022-05-30T02:56:26Z")

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The best thing to do is to post the full JSON response as text. It’s very hard to parse JSON from a screenshot. But if you post the text, I can paste it into [Best JSON Viewer and JSON Beautifier Online](https://codebeautify.org/jsonviewer) and then help you to get the list (array) data you want.

It’s important to include ``` marks before and after the text, like this:

```  
[JSON response]  
```

Otherwise, all quotes will be converted to smart quotes which makes the JSON appear to be invalid.

You might also find my API tutorial helpful:

> [@API JSON Tutorial (Video)](https://community.thunkable.com/t/api-json-tutorial-video/1140575):
>
> 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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