Shell script, curl with variable as part of url - bash

Question

I am writing a small bash script that gets the profile of a Minecraft user from their username. However, when I run the following script, the profile_json variable comes out blank while the uuid_json and uuid variables have the content they should.
#!/bin/bash
# settings
username="Notch"
# script
uuid_json=$(curl https://api.mojang.com/users/profiles/minecraft/$username)
echo $uuid_json
uuid=$(jq '.id' <<< "$uuid_json")
echo $uuid
profile_json=$(curl https://sessionserver.mojang.com/session/minecraft/profile/$uuid)
echo $profile_json
Moreover, the output from running the script in a terminal shows the Current Speed of profile_json=$(curl https://sessionserver.mojang.com/session/minecraft/profile/$uuid) as 0. Any ideas as to why this would be?
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 56 100 56 0 0 160 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 160
{"name":"Notch","id":"069a79f444e94726a5befca90e38aaf5"}
"069a79f444e94726a5befca90e38aaf5"
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0

Answer 1

AS you can see by executing echo $uuid you got "069a79f444e94726a5befca90e38aaf5"
instead of 069a79f444e94726a5befca90e38aaf5 there should be no quotes.
jq has option to remove them it's -r with that everything works as expected(I think).
So change it to:
#!/bin/bash
# settings
username="Notch"
# script
uuid_json=$(curl https://api.mojang.com/users/profiles/minecraft/$username)
echo $uuid_json
uuid=$(jq -r '.id' <<< "$uuid_json") echo $uuid
profile_json=$(curl https://sessionserver.mojang.com/session/minecraft/profile/$uuid)
echo $profile_json

Answer 2

Your echo $uuid outputs this:
"069a79f444e94726a5befca90e38aaf5"
But it really should be:
069a79f444e94726a5befca90e38aaf5
for the curl command to work. So, tweak your jq line to strip off quotation marks.