Trouble getting feed item from JSON

Question

I'm trying to retrieve album artwork from the Last.FM API using JSON and jQuery Ajax, but I'm having trouble accessing the data structure, which looks like:

  "image":[
     {
        "#text":"http:\/\/userserve-ak.last.fm\/serve\/34s\/82993237.png",
        "size":"small"
     },
     {
        "#text":"http:\/\/userserve-ak.last.fm\/serve\/64s\/82993237.png",
        "size":"medium"
     },
     {
        "#text":"http:\/\/userserve-ak.last.fm\/serve\/174s\/82993237.png",
        "size":"large"
     },
     {
        "#text":"http:\/\/userserve-ak.last.fm\/serve\/300x300\/82993237.png",
        "size":"extralarge"
     },
     {
        "#text":"http:\/\/userserve-ak.last.fm\/serve\/_\/82993237\/Jake+Bugg.png",
        "size":"mega"
     }
  ],

Full URL: http://lab.starchcreative.co/zapp/albumartproxy.php?artist=Jake%20Bugg&album=Jake%20Bugg

This data is nested inside album as well, so I tried to do this to access the artwork URL for mega: albumArtURL = data.album.image.#text[4];

This returned an error as I had # in the item. So I just tried albumArtURL = data.album.image.text[4]; to no avail.

Can anyone help with what I'm doing wrong?

Roko C. Buljan · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-06T15:54:02.923

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Have you tried to use bracket notation (instead of dot) for the problematic #text
and accessing the image's [4] array place before targeting the object key

albumArtURL = data.album.image[4]["#text"];

edited Jul 06 '13 at 15:54

answered Jul 06 '13 at 15:43

Roko C. Buljan

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Shouldn't it be `data.album.image[4]["#text"]` instead? – JAM Jul 06 '13 at 15:44
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Boom. You're a life saver! – Jody Heavener Jul 06 '13 at 15:59
@JAM depends on how tired you are ;) thx – Roko C. Buljan Jul 06 '13 at 16:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '13 at 15:56

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   $.each(images.image, function (i, item) {
     var myvar = "text: " + item['#text'] + " size: " + item.size 
    })

here is a working example: fiddle

answered Jul 06 '13 at 15:56

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