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dsta
dsta

Reputation: 373

WinJS parsing a website using JSON

I'm trying to parse a website using JSON. I keep getting an error at the JSON.parse line. Here is the error I keep getting at that line:

    Exception is about to be caught by JavaScript library code at line 31, column 21 in ms-appx://37099737-8761-481d-b1e3-38412d272486/pages/search1/search1.js

    0x800a03f6 - JavaScript runtime error: Invalid character

    If there is a handler for this exception, the program may be safely continued.

Here is my code:

    loadWebsite: function (totalSearch) {
        WinJS.xhr({url: totalSearch}).then(
            function (response) {
                var json = JSON.parse(response.responseText); //this line here
                var list = new WinJS.Binding.List(json.results);
                gridView1.winControl.itemDataSource = list.dataSource;
            },
        function (error){ console.log(error); },
        function (progress) { }
        );
        return;
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 966

Answers (1)

Halcyon
Halcyon

Reputation: 57713

A website is usually sent as HTML, this looks nothing like JSON.

You should HTML parser to parse HTML, and a JSON parser to parse JSON. Makes sense, no?

Upvotes: 1

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