Import JSON feed to WordPress

We have received a URL which is a JSON file apparently:

http://www.domain.com/tools/export-json/?destination=hawaii

I am completely clueless when it comes to JSON and WordPress.

Anybody know where to start?

We will need to create individual posts from this JSON file I presume..

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Method 1

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Method 1

json_decode the JSON into an array.

$slices = json_decode(file_get_contents('yourJSONFile.json'),true);

Loop into the data

if ($slices) { 
   foreach ($slices as $slice) {
      $title = $slice[1];
      // insert more logic here
  }
}

Create a post programmatically by using wp_insert_post.

// Create post object
$my_post = array(
     'post_title'    =>  $title,
     'post_content'  => 'This is my content',
     'post_status'   => 'publish',
     'post_author'   => 1,
     'post_category' => array(8,39)
);

// Insert the post into the database and return the new post ID
$post_id = wp_insert_post( $my_post, true );
if ( is_wp_error( $post_id ) ) {
     // error handling....
}

More details in this tutorial: http://tommcfarlin.com/programmatically-create-a-post-in-wordpress/

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