How to get JSON from URL in JavaScript?
You can use jQuery .getJSON()
function:
$.getJSON('http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20%2a%20from%20yahoo.finance.quotes%20WHERE%20symbol%3D%27WRC%27&format=json&diagnostics=true&env=store://datatables.org/alltableswithkeys&callback', function(data) {
// JSON result in `data` variable
});
If you don't want to use jQuery you should look at this answer for pure JS solution.
If you want to do it in plain javascript, you can define a function like this:
var getJSON = function(url, callback) {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', url, true);
xhr.responseType = 'json';
xhr.onload = function() {
var status = xhr.status;
if (status === 200) {
callback(null, xhr.response);
} else {
callback(status, xhr.response);
}
};
xhr.send();
};
And use it like this:
getJSON('http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20%2a%20from%20yahoo.finance.quotes%20WHERE%20symbol%3D%27WRC%27&format=json&diagnostics=true&env=store://datatables.org/alltableswithkeys&callback',
function(err, data) {
if (err !== null) {
alert('Something went wrong: ' + err);
} else {
alert('Your query count: ' + data.query.count);
}
});
Note that data
is an object, so you can access its attributes without having to parse it.