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Asked: 2026-05-18T00:16:27+00:00

I have limited experience with JSON, and am trying to extract image URLs from

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I have limited experience with JSON, and am trying to extract image URLs from a data feed –

This is what I have for a source –

<HTML>
<head>

<script type="application/javascript" src="jquery-1.4.3.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function()
{

    $.getJSON('http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b4cac2fb1f1930eb8efce1812b69d5ab_render=json',
    function(data)
    {   

         $('#Item_URL').html(data.value.items[0].description +' URL for item photo.');

    });



})
</script>
</head>
<body>

<div id="Item_URL"></div>


</body>
</html>

Of course, Item_URL shows the whole data element for the feed, which includes a ton of text that is not needed!

Here is a fragment of the JSON data

{
  "count": 10,
  "value": {
    "title": "Etsy Feed",
    "description": "Pipes Output",
    "link": "http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=b4cac2fb1f1930eb8efce1812b69d5ab",
    "pubDate": "Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:19:22 -0800",
    "generator": "http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/",
    "callback": "",
    "items": [
      {
        "link": "http://www.etsy.com/listing/60872596/large-green-seasons-greetings-gift-tags",
        "y:title": "Large Green Seasons Greetings Gift Tags Set of 6",
        "y:id": {
          "value": "http://www.etsy.com/listing/60872596/large-green-seasons-greetings-gift-tags",
          "permalink": "true"
        },
       "guid": "http://www.etsy.com/listing/60872596/large-green-seasons-greetings-gift-tags",
        "title": "Large Green Seasons Greetings Gift Tags Set of 6",
        "pubDate": "Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:13:21 -0400",
        "description": "<img src=\"http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_155x125.189695523.jpg\"/><br />$18.00<br />Set of 6 large, green gift tags each measuring 2 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches.<br /><br />",
        "y:published": {
          "hour": "12",
          "timezone": "UTC",
          "second": "21",
          "month": "11",
          "minute": "13",
          "utime": "1288959201",
          "day": "5",
          "day_of_week": "5",
          "year": "2010"
        }
     },

The desired URL is under the description element, and is

img src=”http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_155x125.189695523.jpg&#8221;

for this item in the feed.

What would be the most efficient way to display only the image?

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Get the URL out of the image somehow (cannot say how because I don’t know how the json is formatted)

    var imgurl = data.value.pic.url; //or whatever

    Then in the html somewhere have a container

    <div class="imageContainer">
</div>

    Then use some jquery to append the image to the container div

    <script>
    $('div.imageContainer').append('<img src="' + imgurl + '"/>');
</script>

    EDIT:

    I see the problem now, the data.value.item[0].description contains an image tag as well as un-needed information (as you mentioned at first). This is actually a little tricky. What you want to do is wrap the value in description in a span or something then run a selector on it to extract the image:

    <script>
    var crappyData = data.value.item[0].description;
    var lessCrappy = '<span>' + crappyData + '</span>';
    //Now create a jQuery object out of it
    var notCrappy = $(lessCrappy);
    //Now run a selector on the jQuery object to get all images in description
    var jqueryImage = notCrappy.find('img');
    //Now we can append it to the div mentioned earlier
    $('div.imageContainer').append(jqueryImage);
</script>

    The only tricky thing is that you have to wrap description in something, or jquery will not be able to make sense of it because it is not well-formed html.

    Hope this helps!

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