Make errors / Schema
DataError: Invalid item in module output. Expected Object, but found String
Cause
A module returned a plain string (an error message or malformed JSON) where Make expected a structured object - often a wrong endpoint URL or an API returning an HTML error page.
Fix
Verify the module's endpoint URL and that it returns valid JSON. Use the Make DevTool to inspect the raw response - HTML/plain text means the endpoint is wrong or erroring. Fix the URL or parameters and re-run. If incomplete executions are enabled, repair the stored data after fixing.
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