April 2018
Beginner
238 pages
7h 13m
English
We need to locate a JSON file of reasonable complexity. There are many. You will see in most of the standard repositories for datasets that a good sprinkling of JSON format files is now available. In this example, I am referencing the list of Ford models from http://www.carqueryapi.com/api/0.3/?callback=?&cmd=getModels&make=ford. I could not reference this directly as it is not a flat file, but an API call. So, I downloaded the data into a local file, fords.json. There were a few extra characters at the beginning and the end of the download. Once I had removed those, I used an online pretty print program to validate the format of the .json, as shown in this screenshot: