How to correctly parse Reddit API in Android

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So I've been trying to parse Reddits r/hot/.json API to get a list view of topic information but I cant seem to get my JSON right. I've looked everywhere and I cant seem to find a good example on how to do this for reddit. Here is what I have so far.. ``` JSONObject response = new JSONObject(result); JSONObject data = response.getJSONObject("data"); JSONArray hotTopics = data.getJSONArray("children"); for(int i=0; i<hotTopics.length(); i++) { JSONObject topic = hotTopics.getJSONObject(i); String author = topic.getString("author"); String imageUrl = topic.getString("thumbnail"); String postTime = topic.getString("created_utc"); String rScore = topic.getString("score"); String title = topic.getString("title"); topicdata.add(new ListData(title, author, imageUrl, postTime, rScore)); Log.v(DEBUG_TAG,topicdata.toString()); } ``` -------Edit Okay to give more details I did a HttpGet Request on "http://www.reddit.com/r/hot/.json?sort=new&count=25" When I run my code as it stands I'm getting t…

Accepted Answer

You have to go one more level deeper since the structure is

```
result
-- data
---- children
------ data
-------- author
-------- thumbnail
-------- created_utc
-------- score
-------- title
```

Try something like this

```
for (int i = 0; i < hotTopics.length(); i++) {
    JSONObject topic = hotTopics.getJSONObject(i).getJSONObject("data");

String author = topic.getString("author");
    String imageUrl = topic.getString("thumbnail");
    String postTime = topic.getString("created_utc");
    String rScore = topic.getString("score");
    String title = topic.getString("title");

topicdata.add(new ListData(title, author, imageUrl, postTime, rScore));
    Log.v(DEBUG_TAG, topicdata.toString());
}
```

How to correctly parse Reddit API in Android

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