Response body is not a valid JSON

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This is my error: Response body is not a valid JSON. Bad control character in string literal in JSON at position 180224

I am trying via HTTP request to get and parse some data, & this is my respond!!!

Any help?

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Bump !!! Anyone please?

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Hi @Sam_Krausz, Are you parsing data inside your http module ? There’s an option for that.

If that’s the case, maybe use ‘json parse’ module apart? same thing? Do you suspect the json string to really be invalid ? check with chatgpt rapidly

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I am making an HTTP GET request in Make.com to retrieve a JSON response, but Make.com is failing to parse it and showing the error: “Response body is not a valid JSON. Bad control character in string literal at position 180224.” This suggests that the response contains an invalid character or formatting issue, so I need to check if the API is returning properly structured JSON, if there are unexpected control characters, or if Make.com is misinterpreting the response due to incorrect encoding or compression settings.

Make.com surely has some tools to handle this kind of parsing issue, but I don’t know which ones to use.

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You’ll need to provide the full error Output body here as requested.

This is because while it may look like JSON, it could also be JSONC or JSONL, which is NOT JSON.

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