Deserializing JSON and parsing through the tree - How to navigate this json im working on

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Working on a simple yelp REST API pull and parsing that to write to excel ultimately. In order to get there I was trying to traverse the JSON structure that seems to be built like an array.

This works:
jsonoutput.Item(“businesses”).ToString
but this gives me the entire node of business that seems like an array

This does not work
jsonoutput.Item(“businesses”)[0].“name”.ToString

update: Got it work after help from HareeshMR and some more trial and error. The type property for foreach activity needs to be JToken and then you can easily do item(“name”) to iterate through all business names.

Here is the gist of the JSON structure:

JSON structure

{
“businesses”: [
{
“id”: “YJoIaX8sd6fwYGSG4x4ZQQ”,
“alias”: “85-c-bakery-cafe-irvine”,
“name”: “85°C Bakery Cafe”,
“image_url”: “https://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/Hpoz4d59tOX62c1OczGVAg/o.jpg”,
“is_closed”: false,
“url”: “https://www.yelp.com/biz/85-c-bakery-cafe-irvine?adjust_creative=6SOYGhGW1utOGPKrF0vMHA&utm_campaign=yelp_api_v3&utm_medium=api_v3_business_search&utm_source=6SOYGhGW1utOGPKrF0vMHA”,
“review_count”: 5590,
“categories”: [
{
“alias”: “coffee”,
“title”: “Coffee & Tea”
},
{
“alias”: “bakeries”,
“title”: “Bakeries”
},
{
“alias”: “cakeshop”,
“title”: “Patisserie/Cake Shop”
}
],
“rating”: 4,
“coordinates”: {
“latitude”: 33.6880095831667,
“longitude”: -117.834029372422
},
“transactions”: ,
“price”: “$”,
“location”: {
“address1”: “2700 Alton Pkwy”,
“address2”: “Ste 123”,
“address3”: “”,
“city”: “Irvine”,
“zip_code”: “92606”,
“country”: “US”,
“state”: “CA”,
“display_address”: [
“2700 Alton Pkwy”,
“Ste 123”,
“Irvine, CA 92606”
]
},
“phone”: “+19495538585”,
“display_phone”: “(949) 553-8585”,
“distance”: 3906.72270180294
},
{
“id”: “NVB2X8t5Rie8S5AnzOnWJg”,
“alias”: “north-italia-irvine”,
“name”: “North Italia”,
“image_url”: “https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/TWL29M9UmLCIE1BZrXni8A/o.jpg”,
“is_closed”: false,
“url”: “https://www.yelp.com/biz/north-italia-irvine?adjust_creative=6SOYGhGW1utOGPKrF0vMHA&utm_campaign=yelp_api_v3&utm_medium=api_v3_business_search&utm_source=6SOYGhGW1utOGPKrF0vMHA”,
“review_count”: 2770,
“categories”: [
{
“alias”: “pizza”,
“title”: “Pizza”
},
{
“alias”: “italian”,
“title”: “Italian”
}
],
“rating”: 4.5,
“coordinates”: {
“latitude”: 33.67179,
“longitude”: -117.84507
},
“transactions”: ,
“price”: “$$”,
“location”: {
“address1”: “2957 Michelson Dr”,
“address2”: “”,
“address3”: “”,
“city”: “Irvine”,
“zip_code”: “92612”,
“country”: “US”,
“state”: “CA”,
“display_address”: [
“2957 Michelson Dr”,
“Irvine, CA 92612”
]
},
“phone”: “+19496297060”,
“display_phone”: “(949) 629-7060”,
“distance”: 4841.642780366079
}
],
“total”: 8200,
“region”: {
“center”: {
“longitude”: -117.79335021972656,
“latitude”: 33.67859713176237
}
}
}

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This will give you the array of root element business. Then use deserialize json array. After that, use for each activity and give the inumerable as jsonArrayOutput.Root. You will get all the child elements within that array,

For every root, you need to deserialize it and loop through them to get the child elements within the root

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cool. Thanks, HareeshMR. Got far enough to do foreach item in jsonArrayOutput and spit out each business detail. Now how do i traverse into say a name of each business only in that loop. item.(“name”).tostring?

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