JavaScript: Need Help accessing API JSON data

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I am trying to extract JSON data from an api, but running into issues. When I console.log the data, it shows...

I am trying to access name from the returned json object.I tried to log json.(whatever) from the object and is shows undefined.

const fetchData = async () => {
           const response = await fetch('http://swapi.dev/api/vehicles/30/')
           const json = response.json();
           console.log(json);
        }
    
fetchData();

fortunee · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-06 03:08:31Z

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You need to await response.json as well.

So it should look like this

const fetchData = async () => {
       const response = await fetch('http://swapi.dev/api/vehicles/30/')
       const json = await response.json();
       console.log(json);
    }

fetchData();

answered Mar 6, 2021 at 3:08

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