Unable to parse json dump

[qleguennec]

Hello,

I'm trying to parse a simple JSON dump. No matters what dump i try to parse, the JSON reader gives me an error.

 youtube-dl "ytsearch:dark side of the moon -j >> db"

Parsing it with an online json parser, i got this error:
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON data at line 2 column 1 of the JSON data

My final purpose is to parse it with a haskell JSON library.

[phihag]

Your command line will not output JSON since the quotes are wrong. If you want the JSON in a file db, use

youtube-dl "ytsearch:dark side of the moon" -j > db

[qleguennec]

Sorry, you're right, i used the command line you mentionned, not the first one, of course.
My json file seems right. Have a look: http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/522174

That's sad. The isssue shouldn't be closed.

[phihag]

That file contains valid JSON, two concated documents. Have you run the command with >> instead of >, and ran it twice?

Simply replace >> with > to overwrite the file. Note that when youtube-dl retrieves multiple results (say, you're downloading a playlist, or simply passing in multiple URLs), youtube-dl will output multiple lines, each of which consists of an individual valid JSON document.

We implemented this behavior because it means that you can ask for multiple URLs and get JSON documents while youtube-dl is extracting the information, instead of having to wait for youtube-dl to extract everything. Would it be more convenient for your application to get all of the results as a single JSON document? Note that you still have to use > instead of >> then.

[qleguennec]

Thank you for your help, problem solved.
The issue was actually that my library (haskell's Aeson) was parsing only one line of the dump.