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Concise-ified, misc cleanup, tags and title

edit approved Sep 25, 2013 at 14:20

API calls that return select post bodies throw JSON errors

When calling the Stack Exchange API to get the post body, it will return an error for some posts. EG:
/docs/questions#page=13&pagesize=100&fromdate=2013-09-01&todate=2013-09-02&order=asc&sort=creation&filter=!9ciXf5l7v&site=stackoverflow throws:

Invalid JSON returned

But if we exclude the post body, EG: [/docs/questions#page=13&pagesize=100&fromdate=2013-09-01&todate=2013-09-02&order=asc&sort=creation&filter=default&site=stackoverflow][2] , it works fine.

We suspect it’s because the post body contains some characters like “\0” which makes the returned JSON invalid.

asked Sep 25, 2013 at 8:22

Michael Sun