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Pull Data Out as JSON

Part of the Prompting Techniques section of Coddy's AI Prompts journey. Lesson 12 of 24.

Tables are for people. When a program reads the answer, you want JSON: data written as keys and values in curly braces, like {"city": "Oslo", "temp": 12}. Code can read it directly, with nobody retyping.

Extract the name and age from this sentence: "Maria is 34 and lives in Lisbon." Return only a JSON object with the keys "name" and "age".
{"name": "Maria", "age": 34}

Two things make it dependable. Name the exact keys, so the program finds "age" and not "Age" or "years". And say return only, because a friendly sentence before the braces breaks the program reading it. Some models also wrap JSON in a code block, which a program has to strip first, so add no code block when the reply goes straight into code.

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Challenge

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Your shop's order system needs this order as JSON:

3 blue mugs shipped to Porto

Use the keys item, quantity and city.

The AI's response must:

  • Be a JSON object
  • Fill item and city, with quantity 3
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