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Corrupted JSON HTTP response

I am getting a HTTP request for a website and the content type is JSON. However, I am getting a nested JSON that is a unicode and is causing consistency problems.
Here is an example:
{"key1":"value",
"key2":"value",
"key3":{
u'key31':u'value',
u'key32':u'value'}}
This reminds me of python 2.7 troubles but I am not sure how to fix this JSON. I am using C# to parse it. Everything works correctly until I try to access key3.
The content should be a JSON object type but it is considered rather a value or a string.
Thanks for ya help. Is there a way to fix it if it is actually corrupted or am I parsing it wrongly?

You're correct that this json object is not complete / does not have the correct syntax. You're missing a closing '}' character.
How are you parsing your data? Try taking a look at this documentation.

your json object is not in valid formatted it should be like as folllows
{
"key1":"value",
"key2":"value",
"key3":{
" u'key31'":"u'value'",
"u'key32'":"u'value'"
}
}
by any chance do you get this json from python dump? coz Python's unicode literals are not valid JSON, and neither are single quotes

Convert Json that has many unicode characters back to standard json

I'm receiving a json payload from a webhook but the json that is returned is coming in like this
payload=%7B%22event%22%3A%7B%22info%22%3A%22REFRESH.INTERIM_PROGRESS%22%2C%22loginName%22%3A%22sbMemKostaSavR4%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22providerAccount%22%3A%7B%22id%22%3A10376130%2C%22providerId%22%3A12292%2C%22isManual%22%3Afalse%2C%22createdDate%22%3A%222017-08-20%22%2C%22aggregationSource%22%3A%22USER%22%2C%22refreshInfo%22%3A%7B%22statusCode%22%3A0%2C%22statusMessage%22%3A%22OK%22%2C%22status%22%3A%22IN_PROGRESS%22%2C%22additionalStatus%22%3A%22ACCOUNT_SUMMARY_RETRIEVED%22%7D%7D%7D%7D%7D
is there a simple way to convert it back to normal standard json with the curly braces. I really don't want to do a crazy string.Replace method on it.

This worked for me.
HttpUtility.UrlDecode(json);

Easily with build-in java function:
java.net.URLDecoder.decode("YOUR_ENCODED_STR", "UTF-8");
No need any external library.3

Json evaluation - trouble with accents

Huy guys!
I'm having some trouble with accents when I directly make a query on facebook website.
When content have accents, the website returns something like this:
"__html":"M\u00fasico/Banda"
But testing with JsonParserOnline (http://json.parser.online.fr/) they divide 2 columns, and the last one is "JSEval", where they can normalize the Json, like this:
"__html":"Músico/Banda"
How can i normalize this since i already have the string?
I attached a sample with my query to be more specific.
Thanks in advance!

"__html":"M\u00fasico/Banda" is a correct JSON encoding for the string. \u00fa is specifying a UNICODE code point. Any JSON parser in c# will handle this.

converting json string into json on client side?

In my javascript code I am getting json string from cs file
var tmpString="<%=resultset2%>";
In cs I am concatenating strings to build json string. Here is an issue the json string is returned as a string and it has " with it.
"[{id:'1',name:'Aik'},{id:'2',name:'Aik or Aik'}]"
Because of " in beginning and end javascript code treat it as a string. Kindly guide me how I should sort out this issue.
thanks

Fix the JSON, it has errors (property names must be strings (and thus quoted), and only " are acceptable for quoting strings in JSON). JSON is a subset of JavaScript, you can't use all of JS' syntax in JSON. As a rule of thumb, if you are concatenating strings to produce a data format, then you are doing it wrong. http://json.org/ lists a number of C# libraries that you can use to build JSON.
Use json2.js

Change this:
var tmpString="<%=resultset2%>";
to:
var tmpString=<%=resultset2%>;
This isn't JSON, you're just writing javascript from a server page. The problem is you are creating invalid javascript syntax, you just need to remove the quotes.
The quotes aren't from resultset2 they are from your markup.

How do I remove backslashes from URLs?

I am using the Twitter API, and the response I get is in JSON format. When I parse JSON using C# so the value of profile_image_url does not contain the proper URL. This URL is absolutly fine in the response, but after parsing the response I get the following URL. How do I remove backslashes?
http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/700049686/14_normal.jpg

You can remove backslashes using the Replace function:
url = url.Replace("\\", "")
But perhaps you ought to spend some time working out how those backslashes got there in the first place. It sounds like you aren't parsing the JSON correctly. What parser are you using?