Parsing JSON in Google Sheets

Question

I\'m working with JSON for the first time, so please excuse my lack of knowledge.

I\'m trying to use a JSON file to populate data in a Google Sheet. I just don\'t k

Answer 1

How about this workaround?

Reason of issue:

When I saw the URL of https://eddb.io/archive/v6/bodies_recently.jsonl, I noticed that the extension of the file is jsonl. So when I checked the values retrieved from https://eddb.io/archive/v6/bodies_recently.jsonl, it was found that the values were JSON Lines. This has already been mentioned by Dimu Designs's comment. Also I could confirm that the official document says bodies_recently.jsonl is Line-delimited JSON.

Workaround:

Unfortunately, ImportJSON cannot directly parse the values of JSON Lines. So it is required to modify the script as a workaround. In your shared Spreadsheet, the script of ImportJSON is put as the container-bound script. In this modification, I modified the script. Please modify as follows.

From:

The following function can be seen at the line of 130 - 135 in your script editor.

function ImportJSONAdvanced(url, query, options, includeFunc, transformFunc) {
  var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);
  var object   = JSON.parse(jsondata.getContentText());

  return parseJSONObject_(object, query, options, includeFunc, transformFunc);
}

To:

Please replace the above function to the following script, and save the script. Then, please put =ImportJSON("https://eddb.io/archive/v6/bodies_recently.jsonl", "/id") to a cell, again.

function ImportJSONAdvanced(url, query, options, includeFunc, transformFunc) {
  var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);
  var object = jsondata.getContentText().match(/{[\w\s\S].+}/g).map(function(e) {return JSON.parse(e)}); // Modified

  return parseJSONObject_(object, query, options, includeFunc, transformFunc);
}

Result:

Note:

• Although this modified script works for the values from https://eddb.io/archive/v6/bodies_recently.jsonl, I'm not sure whether this modified script works for all JSON lines values. I apologize for this.

References:

• eddb.io/api
• JSON Lines

If I misunderstood your question and this was not the result you want, I apologize.

Answer 2

you can use =IMPORTDATA(E1) and get the whole chunk into sheets and then REGEXEXTRACT all parts you need

Answer 3

I'm not with my laptop, but I see you getting the error SyntaxError: Expected end of stream at char 2028 (line 132).

I think the data you received from the URL is to long.