Title: JSON-Decoding failed Error
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# JSON-Decoding failed Error

 *  Resolved [therber2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/therber2/)
 * (@therber2)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-decoding-failed-error/)
 * First off, I have the plugin installed correctly and given examples work fine.
   The json I’m trying to import from is coming up with an error.
 * Here is the api: [http://api.sportsdatabase.com/nfl/query.json?sdql=date%2Cpoints%40team%3DBears%20and%20season%3D2011&output=json&api_key=th926535](http://api.sportsdatabase.com/nfl/query.json?sdql=date%2Cpoints%40team%3DBears%20and%20season%3D2011&output=json&api_key=th926535)
 * Here is the short code I am using just to try and get around the initial error(“
   JSON-Decoding failed. Check structure and encoding if JSON-data. problems with
   JSON-structure: check basenode-param”)
 *     ```
       [jsoncontentimporter url="http://api.sportsdatabase.com/nfl/query.json?sdql=date%2Cpoints%40team%3DBears%20and%20season%3D2011&output=json&api_key=th926535" numberofdisplayeditems="30" basenode=""]
       text
       [/jsoncontentimporter]
       ```
   
 * Is there a problem in general with the source or something like that?
 * Thanks a bunch. I’ll donate!
    -Tom
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-content-importer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-content-importer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [berkux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/berkux/)
 * (@berkux)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-decoding-failed-error/page/2/#post-6649116)
 * jQuery-getJSON: sorry, nope.
    As I decided that this is not the way I want to
   connect wordpress with data.

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