Tech
Why Your OpenAI JSON Calls Randomly Fail with "could not parse JSON body" (And How to Fix It)
``You're calling OpenAI from Node.js. 99% of requests work. Then randomly:
BadRequestError: 400 could not parse JSON body
Or:
SyntaxError: Invalid JSON: EOF while parsing an object
Or, if you're using tool calling:
Invalid JSON in tool call arguments
You check your code. Nothing changed. You retry manually — it works. You deploy again. It breaks again.
What's actually happening
These errors are NOT your bugs. They're transient artifacts from:
Proxy / networ...
Read the full discussion on Dev.to
This article was aggregated from Dev.to. Click to join the conversation.
View on Dev.to