How to send JSON from macro to Make.com – how to fix the `Unexpected token c in JSON at position 17` error?

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@peternlewis

But that is what the problem is. The JSON at that part is incorrect, since it is:

{"value1" : "[{"c…

The " before the c (the c being character 17 that it is complaining about), is not masked and so ends the JSON string.

Yes, the plug in action adds "value1".

@DanThomas

But the only benefit a "plug in action" has over normal macros is that it has a nicer way of specifying parameters. Other than that, there's no real difference, so whatever problem you have, it's not because it needs to be a plugin action.

Because of this I created another ChatGPT prompt and it seems that this works, because this is not added before the original JSON anymore when I just use execute shell script action, instead of using a plug in action.

@peternlewis

{"value1" : "[{"c…

It seems that this is the solution:

#!/bin/bash

JSON_PAYLOAD=$(osascript -e 'tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" to getvariable "jsoncksequence"')

WEBHOOK_URL="https://hook.eu1.make.com/ffoxs6carni3zqh6b8m8ei2tluf3ymof"

curl -X POST "$WEBHOOK_URL" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "$JSON_PAYLOAD"