Invalid JSON data

[anderwm]

I am trying out the Notebooks in .12 on a windows machine...I have been enjoying the qtconsole for a while now. When I try to import one of the notebooks from the examples I get.

WARNING:root:400 POST /noteboosk?name=00_notebook_tour&format=json (127.0.0.1): Invalid JSON data
WARNING:root:400 POST /noteboosk?name=00_notebook_tour&format=json (127.0.0.1): 0.00ms

this shows up in the kernel window when I click upload in the notebook from the browser after dragging in the file.

Am I doing something wrong?

[minrk]

Which notebook? This error indicates that the json file is not valid.

[anderwm]

Stands to reason...I tried

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/docs/examples/notebooks/00_notebook_tour.ipynb
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/docs/examples/notebooks/01_notebook_introduction.ipynb

and one other from the list at random and got the same error.

[anderwm]

So it turns out that if you right click on the file in github and do a save as in chrome...it saves it as .ipynb but it is actually an HTML file.(insert obligatory install Git you idiot comment here)

Anyway, the error is as it should be

[takluyver]

Ah, OK. Note that there is a link on github to 'raw' versions of files,
e.g.
https://raw.github.com/ipython/ipython/master/docs/examples/notebooks/00_notebook_tour.ipynb

[FedericoHan]

Indeed, click the 'raw' tab, CTRL+ Save , then change saving option to 'All Types" and type .ipynb to the file extension so that it's saved as an actual .ipynb file.

[lmohan914]

I am getting the below error while uploading a notebook. It worked in my old laptop. Now when I try it uploading in my new laptop I get the below error. The notebook is not from github, but one of my local notebook which I had created or copied from other source.

Cannot upload invalid Notebook

The error was: SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0

Please advise.
Lalit Mohan