diff --git a/api/setup/analyzeMenuUrl.cfm b/api/setup/analyzeMenuUrl.cfm
index 4867513..a4522d6 100644
--- a/api/setup/analyzeMenuUrl.cfm
+++ b/api/setup/analyzeMenuUrl.cfm
@@ -350,9 +350,26 @@
         <cfset responseText = left(responseText, len(responseText) - 3)>
     </cfif>
     <cfset responseText = trim(responseText)>
+    <!--- Remove trailing commas before ] or } --->
     <cfset responseText = reReplace(responseText, ",(\s*[\]\}])", "\1", "all")>
+    <!--- Remove control characters that break JSON --->
+    <cfset responseText = reReplace(responseText, "[\x00-\x1F]", " ", "all")>
 
-    <cfset menuData = deserializeJSON(responseText)>
+    <!--- Try to parse JSON with error handling --->
+    <cftry>
+        <cfset menuData = deserializeJSON(responseText)>
+        <cfcatch type="any">
+            <!--- JSON parsing failed - try to extract what we can --->
+            <!--- Return the raw response for debugging --->
+            <cfset response["success"] = false>
+            <cfset response["error"] = "JSON parse error: #cfcatch.message#">
+            <cfset response["DEBUG_RAW_RESPONSE"] = left(responseText, 2000)>
+            <cfset response["DEBUG_RESPONSE_LENGTH"] = len(responseText)>
+            <cfcontent type="application/json" reset="true">
+            <cfoutput>#serializeJSON(response)#</cfoutput>
+            <cfabort>
+        </cfcatch>
+    </cftry>
 
     <!--- Debug: save raw Claude response before processing --->
     <cfset response["DEBUG_RAW_CLAUDE"] = responseText>