# ECE Fundamentals Lab3, Step9 "failed to parse - Malformed content"

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**Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\
**Created:** [August 7, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-fundamentals-lab3-step9-failed-to-parse-malformed-content/340215 "2023-08-07T02:36:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-fundamentals-lab3-step9-failed-to-parse-malformed-content/340215/1 "2023-08-07T02:36:41Z")

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I'm running through the ECE Fundamentals course and have an issue with Lab 3, Step 9.  
When bulk loading the dataset into the index blogs-00001 I get the following error:

{  
"error":{  
"root\_cause":[{  
"type":"mapper\_parsing\_exception",  
"reason":"failed to parse"  
}],  
"type":"mapper\_parsing\_exception",  
"reason":"failed to parse",  
"caused\_by":{  
"type":"illegal\_argument\_exception",  
"reason":"Malformed content, found extra data after parsing: START\_OBJECT"  
}  
},  
"status":400  
}

Command I'm running is:  
curl -X POST -k -u elastic -H   
'Content-Type: application/x-ndjson'   
[https://05690487c1984f77b1c3ea3ae6b22468.172.31.33.12.ip.es.io:9243/blogs-000001/\_doc/\_bulk](https://05690487c1984f77b1c3ea3ae6b22468.172.31.33.12.ip.es.io:9243/blogs-000001/_doc/_bulk)   
--data-binary @/home/elastic/blogs\_bulk.json

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-fundamentals-lab3-step9-failed-to-parse-malformed-content/340215/2 "2023-08-21T02:37:17Z")

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