Newtonsoft.Json, Path returned multiple tokens

Question

For this code:

JObject o = JObject.Parse(jsStr);
var sel = o.SelectToken(".items[*].owner");

where the jsStr is the content of https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=Newtonsoft.Json&sort=stars&order=desc

I'll get the error of

Path returned multiple tokens.

How to make it works?

Answer 1

The .SelectToken() method is for querying a single (string) value. You are getting an error because that path matches 60 values, not one.

Instead, use .SelectTokens(), which returns an IEnumerable<JToken>:

var vals = o.SelectTokens(".items[*].owner");