How to parse JSON in node js?

Question

I'm using the API's node wrapper: https://github.com/MySportsFeeds/mysportsfeeds-node/blob/master/README.md https://www.mysportsfeeds.com/data-feeds/api-docs#

The call is going through fine and automatically saving on under "/results"

Here's my code:

 msf.authenticate("username", "password");
    var data = msf.getData('nba', '2016-2017-regular', 'cumulative_player_stats', 'json', {
        player: 'nick-young'
    });

    request(data, function(error, response, body) {
        if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
            var parsedData = JSON.parse(body);
            console.log(parsedData["cumulativeplayerstats"]["playerstatsentry"][0]["stats"]["PtsPerGame"]["#text"]);
        }
    });

Thanks in advance

"How to parse JSON in node js".... you are already doing it JSON.parse(body) if body is the actual JSON text response. If you are having a problem you should say what the actual problem is, and any error messages you might be receiving — Patrick Evans
– Patrick Evans, Commented Sep 18, 2017 at 6:02
have you console log error to make sure you arent getting an error? Did you console log just parseData to make sure it was parsed correctly? Did you console log body to make sure it is what you think it is? — Patrick Evans
– Patrick Evans, Commented Sep 18, 2017 at 6:07
I updated my question to the what is showing up in the console. JSON is saving in results folder. Do I need to get the JSON from the results folder then? — Adam
– Adam, Commented Sep 18, 2017 at 6:11

Zahidul Islam · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-18 10:08:34Z

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When you call msf.getData(league, season, feed, format, and any other applicable params for the feed) with format 'json'. It return a json object. As a result your data will be a json object.

msf.authenticate("username", "password");
var data = msf.getData('nba', '2016-2017-regular', 'cumulative_player_stats', 'json', {player: 'nick-young'});

console.log(data["cumulativeplayerstats"]["playerstatsentry"][0]["stats"]["PtsPerGame"]["#text"]);

Read json file content using fs.readFile

Sync

const fs = require('fs');
const json = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('results/cumulative_player_stats-nba-2016-2017-regular.json', 'utf8'));

Async

const fs = require('fs');

fs.readFile('results/cumulative_player_stats-nba-2016-2017-regular.json', 'utf8', (err, data) => {
  if (err) throw err;

  const json = JSON.parse(data);

  console.log(json["cumulativeplayerstats"]["playerstatsentry"][0]["stats"]["PtsPerGame"]["#text"]);
});

edited Sep 18, 2017 at 10:08

answered Sep 18, 2017 at 6:32

Zahidul Islam

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2 Comments

Adam Over a year ago

The console says this with and without console.log : File saved as 'results/cumulative_player_stats-nba-2016-2017-regular.json'. How can I parse that JSON file?

Adam Over a year ago

Question on the async code. I'm getting an error on the const json; line. How can I get that resolved?

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