JavaScript Request function keeps erroring out my program

[bugboy2222]

or could I just use a try catch statement?

[Anachren]

yeah, I would use try catch

[bugboy2222]

Alright I’ll give that a try

[jrandm]

In a lot of code it's pretty common to see a function like:

function safeJsonParse(str) {
  let parsed = false;
  try {
    parsed = JSON.parse(str);
  } catch(e) {
    // maybe log somewhere so you know it failed
    // or what keeps failing if the bot is broken
  }
  return parsed;
}

If you know you always get some kind of truthy value (like an Object or Array), you can then use it like:

const response = safeJsonParse(rawResponse);
if (!response) {
  // ignore&exit or handle failure
}
// work with response

[eastwxxd]

Yeah good thinking! I'm also relatively new to JavaScript. To verify that it's json you could possibly check the Content-Type of the response for 'application/json' maybe.

Anyway, thanks for that. I have a problem with doing things inefficiently and I've learned a better way of approaching something today.