i was trying to fetch a data for a project but everytime i'm converting the fetch data to json it returns me
SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
i don't understand why it's showing me this
import React,{useContext,useState,useEffect} from 'react'
const url = 'www.thecocktaildb.com/api/json/v1/1/search.php?s='
export default function AppProvider({children}) {
const [loading,setLoading] = useState(true)
const [searchTerm,setSearchTerm] = useState('a')
//set it as 'a' for suggestion at search bar at beginning.
const [cocktails,setCocktails] = useState([])
const fetchUrl = async ()=>{
setLoading(true)
try {
const response = await fetch(`${url}${searchTerm}`)
//(${url}${searchterm} helps me to fetch data at first with names that starts with 'a' for suggestion///
const data = await response.json()
setLoading(false)
} catch (error) {
console.log(error)
}
}
useEffect(()=>{
fetchUrl()
},[searchTerm])
please visit the API page from the URL & see if there's an issue with the data. the data is not fetching. what's the issue?
Doing
fetch('www.thecocktaildb.com/')
will fetch not that website, but that path relative to the current path. For example, doing so here on Stack Overflow results in the URL being fetched being
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72914244/www.thecocktaildb.com/
which, of course, doesn't exist - and presumably that URL doesn't exist on your site either.
Use the full path.
const url = 'https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api/json/v1/1/search.php?s='
I'd also recommend only calling the API when searchTerm isn't empty, and perhaps add a debounce of a few hundred milliseconds so as not to call it too often and to keep the client from being blocked.