HORIZONS api response in JSON format looks weird

[g0gan]

When i'm trying to use this GET request:

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/api/horizons.api?format=json&COMMAND='499'&OBJ_DATA='YES'&MAKE_EPHEM='YES'&EPHEM_TYPE='OBSERVER'&CENTER='500@399'&START_TIME='2006-01-01'&STOP_TIME='2006-01-20'&STEP_SIZE='1%20d'&QUANTITIES='1,9,20,23,24,29'
resonse looks weird:

Please, could you fix this issue?

[jumpjack]

it looks like JSON response is... fake: the JSON object actually just contains the plain text output...
It's not a bug, it's a missing feature: they should split the text output into "object data" and "ephemeris" and put them into separate objects, and possibly the lines of the output should be stored as an array of arrays rather than a plain list.

[TJKoury]

Horizons has not created an updated schema / data model for this information, or a converter to take the old data and interpret it correctly.