I am pulling data from a web service and it is formatted as JSON. I am writing a Google Apps Script for Google Sheets that will populate the data for me. My problem is, I can't seem to get it to parse out.
Doing:
var dataset = myJSONtext;
Browser.msgbox(dataset.item[0].key);
errors out, saying:
item[0] is not defined.
Is there some built in way I should be doing this?
A 2013 update -- Check out the ImportJSON library at
http://blog.fastfedora.com/projects/import-json
"ImportJSON imports data from public JSON APIs into Google Spreadsheets. It aims to operate similarly to how the native Google Spreadsheet functions ImportData and ImportXML work."
Code available here and he has submitted it to the Script Gallery: https://raw.github.com/fastfedora/google-docs/master/scripts/ImportJSON/Code.gs
Example usage: After putting the code in your Google spreadsheet's Script Editor, then paste this in cell A1 of the sheet:
=ImportJSON("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_popular?v=2&alt=json", "/feed/entry/title,/feed/entry/content", "noInherit,noTruncate,rawHeaders")