JSON Response with HTML Content

Question

I am consulting an API which returns a JSON object and one of the values is badly formatted. It contains \r and \n, when I try to JSON.parse it, it gives me an error. I have tried turning it into a string with JSON.stringify and replace the \r and \n but no luck, it does remove the characters but when i try to parse it again it does not work.

Response

            {
            "seller_store_name": "test",
            "seller_store_description": "<blockquote>
<p>ewffwewef</p>
<p>wefwef</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>fewfewf</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>efwfewf</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</blockquote>",
            "seller_profile_picture":"",
            "seller_profile_picture_default": "https://test.com/",
            "seller_banner": "",
            "seller_banner_default": "https://test.com/"
        }

Attempt 1, turn to string and remove the \r and \n characters

sellerData = JSON.stringify(e);

"            {\n            \"seller_store_name\": \"test\",\n            \"seller_store_description\": \"<blockquote>\r\n<p>ewffwewef</p>\r\n<p>wefwef</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n<td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n<td>fewfewf</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n<td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n<td>efwfewf</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</blockquote>\",\n            \"seller_profile_picture\":\"\",\n            \"seller_profile_picture_default\": \"https://test.com\",\n            \"seller_banner\": \"\",\n            \"seller_banner_default\": \"https://test.com\"\n        }\n    "

sellerData = sellerData.replace(/\\r/g,"").replace(/\\n/g,"");
sellerData = JSON.parse(sellerData);

This successfully removes the characters but when i try to parse the data again, it does not turn into an object, it stays as a string.

Attempt 2, basic parsing When i try to parse it, it gives me an error

sellerData = JSON.parse(String(e));

Unexpected token in JSON at position 126

Any help would be appreciated. Unfortunately, i cannot modify the response from the API.

Answer 1

Try this

sellerData = sellerData.replace(/\\r\\n/g, "");

I think this because of \r\n, so just remove this should be done.