pretty json function not working correctly on certain sites

[jasan-s]

results look like this while using on some sites:
artoo.saveJson(list, {filename: "test.json", pretty: true});

"[{\"cartoon\": \"\", \"name\": \"Wonder Woman\"]"

On some sites it works fine and saves it like so:

[
  {
  "cartoon" : "",
  "name": "Wonder Woman" 
  }
]

[Yomguithereal]

If you use saveJson it should produce a normal non-prettified line. You would rather use savePrettyJson to get a nicer output.

However, I don't really get why some sites would have a different behavior here because it really just uses the engines 'JSON.stringify` function which does not have a different behavior on different sites. Can you pinpoint me to some sites where the behavior you see can be replicated so I can investigate?

[jasan-s]

sure: trailers is one of these site.

my current workaround is the following:

var querystring = require('querystring');
var list = require('test.json')
var newList= querystring.unescape(list);

[Yomguithereal]

Are you doing this in the browser? Or in node through puppeteer?

[jasan-s]

chrome browser, through dev console

[jasan-s]

it seems like somewhere an extra JSON.stringify() is happening

[Yomguithereal]

I can't reproduce your issue. If I do the following:

var o = {hello: 'world'};
artoo.savePrettyJson(o);

I get the expected result.