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JavaScript Node.js Basics 2017 Building a Command Line Application Making a GET Request with https

Posted by Hanwen Zhang
Hanwen Zhang
20,084 Points

How to get JSON data from any URL (API)?

For instance, I found a website, and I want to use the data there, is there a way that I can get JSOn data from any website or only certian websites?

How to get JSON data from the url then? and How do we know is there is a json data available? Thank you

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Hanwen Zhang
Hanwen Zhang
20,084 Points

It is a general question I just thought of, nothing about this challenge.

1 Answer

Robert Manolis
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Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Robert Manolis
Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Hanwen Zhang , you can only get a JSON response if the server you're pinging is set up to return JSON. You can try researching a site or app to see if has an API that you can send requests to. Or you can try just sending a request and see what you get. If you found a site that you want to get info from, but it doesn't return JSON, you may be able to scrape the site to get info off the page. But you can't ethically get anything off the server that they don't want to give you. :thumbsup: