Issue calling API with Micropython

Coding Help
1

Hi everyone,

I’m a newbie to all things coding but thought I would try to create an API through Glitch.

I’ve made the basic form of the API - the project name is: tulip-peat-rowboat - access to api is tulip-peat-rowboat.glitch.me/api/monster

If I use VScode and the requests library I can pull the json data and create a basic monster.

But when I try to get the data to display using micropython and the urequests library I’m getting the following:
Data obtained!
<Response object at 2001b850>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 7, in
File “requests/init.py”, line 33, in json
ValueError: syntax error in JSON

Here is my script:
import urequests
import json

response = urequests.get(“https://tulip-peat-rowboat.glitch.me/api/monster”)
print(“Data obtained!”)
print(response)
print(response.json())

Can anyone explain why this syntax error is occurring or if my server.js script is causing this error?

2

can you show what the response body is? then we can look at it and figure out why it’s invalid JSON

3

This?

200
<class 'dict'>
{
    "type": "Dragon",
    "hp": 8,
    "attack": 12,
    "defense": 16
}

This was done from requests in VScode. When i try to use urequests in micropython on the Raspberry Pi Pico I get the syntax error message. I have the Badger 2040W - it has a preinstalled file that collects weather api data with urequests - that seems to work ok. It’s only when I use the glitch link that I can’t get it to collect the json.

4

are the 200 and <class 'dict'> part of the response? or are they other logs? the stuff that follows from { to } looks fine

edit: I tried loading the url from my browser and the JSON looks fine from there too.

can you get a copy of the exact request urequests sends? maybe it’s missing a User-Agent header or something. that would get you a 403 (?) error from Glitch. oh yeah, try adding code to check that the response is 200 OK