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JavaScript Node.js Basics 2017 Building a Command Line Application Parsing JSON

Posted by Kaleshe Alleyne-Vassel
Kaleshe Alleyne-Vassel
8,466 Points

SyntaxError: Unexpected token d in JSON at position 0 undefined:1 data:data

I've checked over the code and it looks like it mirrors the

const https = require('https'); const username = "chalkers";

//Function to print message to console function printMessage(username, badgeCount, points) { const message = ${username} has ${badgeCount} total badge(s) and ${points} points in JavaScript; console.log(message); }

// Connect to the API URL (https://teamtreehouse.com/username.json) const request = https.get(https://teamtreehouse.com/${username}.json, response => {

                        let body = "";
                        // Read the data
                        response.on('data', data => {
                          body += 'data:', data.toString();
                        });

                        response.on('end', () => {
                        // Parse the data
                        const profile = JSON.parse(body);
                          console.dir(profile);
                        // Print the data

                        });

                      });

1 Answer

Emre K.
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Emre K.
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Emre K.
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Emre K.
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Hello, Kaleshe Alleyne-Vassel

I hope you were able to solve your problem. If not, I tested your code and noticed it is slightly different than the presented one.

Presented one:

          // Read the data
    response.on("data", data => {
        body += data.toString();
    })

Yours was as follows:

       // Read the data
        response.on('data', data => {
         body += 'data:', data.toString();
        });

It works for me this way.

Caleb Newell
Caleb Newell
12,562 Points

Thank you. I had the same issue as well, and this seemed to fix it :)

Frank Kynard
Frank Kynard
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Frank Kynard
Frank Kynard
6,958 Points

Yeah me as well. not sure how I did this but Thanks