Can't parse valid JSON - Unexpected token ( in JSON at position 0

Question

I'm stuck in a problem that doesn't make ANY sense. I'm using the request module to do a request for other server that I own, and this server is clearly answering with the following JSON:

{"bucket":"name-of-my-bucket","prefix":"cb012af0-ac7a-414b-b474-a9c71cbec811/"}

If I log the type of the response, will be a string:

console.log(response.body) // string

But I can't parse to a javascript object, because it will throw the following error:

Unexpected token ( in JSON at position 0

I'm stuck on this for the last 3 hours, I already tried everything, including answering with a empty JSON, but the error persists. Do someone have any idea what it is?

const request = require('request-promise');

request.post('http://...', {
  formData: {
    // data here
  }
}).then(response => {
  // request.body is application/json
  console.log(response.body); // {"bucket":"name-of-my-bucket","prefix":"cb012af0-ac7a-414b-b474-a9c71cbec811/"}
  const data = JSON.parse(response.body);
}).catch(console.error);

Answer 1

Your json data is in "response" itself. so console.log(response) prints your json object.