check JSON validity

Author: Khalilsqu

.github/workflows/check_new_entry.yml renamed to .github/workflows/validate_json.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-name: Check JSON Entries
+name: Validate JSON Entries
+description: Validate JSON entries in awesome_open_geoscience.json
 
 on:
   push:

scripts/validate_json_entries.py

@@ -18,13 +18,17 @@
 }
 
 def validate_entries(json_file):
-    with open(json_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
-        data = json.load(f)
+    try:
+        with open(json_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            data = json.load(f)
+    except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
+        print(f"Error: Invalid JSON in {json_file}\n{e}")
+        sys.exit(1)  # Exit with a non-zero code to fail the GitHub Action
 
-    # Validate schema
+    # Validate against schema
     jsonschema.validate(instance=data, schema=schema)
 
-    # Check duplicates
+    # Check for duplicates
     seen = set()
     duplicates = []
     for entry in data: