How to make a leaderboard in UE5 using visual scripting only and Jupyter Notebook as API and VaRest Plugin for the Requests

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The API I’m given has the method called leaderboard (http://127.0.0.1/leaderboard) and it returns a JSON Array in the following format (they are ordered by score):

[
  {
    "name": "Charming Sir",
    "character": "Ram",
    "score": 322
  },
  {
    "name": "Golden Shark",
    "character": "Gold",
    "score": 0
  },
  {
    "name": "Frostie Snowman",
    "character": "Frost",
    "score": 0
  }
]

I need to take that JSON and somehow parse it to array, take the first 5 results and change the 5 Texts I have placed in the Widget to their names.
I don’t want anything more complicated like using lists or changing the API since I’m provided with that API and can’t change anything.

Here are some screenshots of what I have