How to make a JSON call to a url?

It seems they offer a js option for the format parameter, which will return JSONP. You can retrieve JSONP like so:

function getJSONP(url, success) {

    var ud = '_' + +new Date,
        script = document.createElement('script'),
        head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] 
               || document.documentElement;

    window[ud] = function(data) {
        head.removeChild(script);
        success && success(data);
    };

    script.src = url.replace('callback=?', 'callback=' + ud);
    head.appendChild(script);

}

getJSONP('http://soundcloud.com/oembed?url=http%3A//soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood&format=js&callback=?', function(data){
    console.log(data);
});  

A standard http GET request should do it. Then you can use JSON.parse() to make it into a json object.

function Get(yourUrl){
    var Httpreq = new XMLHttpRequest(); // a new request
    Httpreq.open("GET",yourUrl,false);
    Httpreq.send(null);
    return Httpreq.responseText;          
}

then

var json_obj = JSON.parse(Get(yourUrl));
console.log("this is the author name: "+json_obj.author_name);

that's basically it

Because the URL isn't on the same domain as your website, you need to use JSONP.

For example: (In jQuery):

$.getJSON(
    'http://soundcloud.com/oembed?url=http%3A//soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood&format=js&callback=?', 
    function(data) { ... }
);

This works by creating a <script> tag like this one:

<script src="http://soundcloud.com/oembed?url=http%3A//soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood&format=js&callback=someFunction" type="text/javascript"></script>

Their server then emits Javascript that calls someFunction with the data to retrieve.
`someFunction is an internal callback generated by jQuery that then calls your callback.