diff --git a/api/setup/analyzeMenuUrl.cfm b/api/setup/analyzeMenuUrl.cfm
index 3e3f891..c479515 100644
--- a/api/setup/analyzeMenuUrl.cfm
+++ b/api/setup/analyzeMenuUrl.cfm
@@ -1180,6 +1180,7 @@
 
     <!--- Clean up JSON response --->
     <cfset responseText = trim(responseText)>
+    <!--- Strip markdown code fences --->
     <cfif left(responseText, 7) EQ "```json">
         <cfset responseText = mid(responseText, 8, len(responseText) - 7)>
     </cfif>
@@ -1190,6 +1191,18 @@
         <cfset responseText = left(responseText, len(responseText) - 3)>
     </cfif>
     <cfset responseText = trim(responseText)>
+    <!--- If response doesn't start with {, extract JSON object from text --->
+    <cfif left(responseText, 1) NEQ "{">
+        <cfset jsonStart = find("{", responseText)>
+        <cfif jsonStart GT 0>
+            <cfset responseText = mid(responseText, jsonStart, len(responseText) - jsonStart + 1)>
+            <!--- Strip any trailing text/fences after the JSON --->
+            <cfif right(trim(responseText), 3) EQ "```">
+                <cfset responseText = left(trim(responseText), len(trim(responseText)) - 3)>
+            </cfif>
+            <cfset responseText = trim(responseText)>
+        </cfif>
+    </cfif>
     <!--- Remove trailing commas before ] or } --->
     <cfset responseText = reReplace(responseText, ",(\s*[\]\}])", "\1", "all")>
     <!--- Remove control characters that break JSON --->