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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) AJAX and APIs Displaying the Photos

Sanjeev Veloo
Sanjeev Veloo
4,713 Points

Keep getting this error : photos_public.gne:1 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <

Hi everyone,

I keep getting this error, even when I break it down and just try to console.log(photo.media.m), can you spot anything wrong here?

$(document).ready(function(){

  $('button').click(function(){

    $('button').removeClass("selected");  // remove any existing classes
    $(this).addClass("selected");         // add class

    var flickrAPI = "https://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?jsoncallback=?"; // Flickr API url with JSON
    var animal = $(this).text();


    var flickrOptions = {  
      tags : animal
    }

    function displayPhotos(data) {

      var photoHTML = '<ul>';

      $.each(array, function(i, photo){

        console.log(photo.media.m);

        // photoHTML += '<li class="grid-25 tablet-grid-50">';
        // photoHTML += '<a href="' + photo.link + '" class="image">';
        // photoHTML += '<img src="' + photo.media.m + '"></a></li>';

      });

      photoHTML += '</ul>';

      $('#photos').html(photoHTML);

    }; // end displayPhotos

    $.getJSON(flickrAPI, flickrOptions, displayPhotos);       // The JSON request

  }); // button function

}); // end ready

3 Answers

So that call we're making is responding in XML. So, I added a parameter to my call to return in JSON and not XML since $.getJSON() is turning the response to javascript and doesn't know what to do with the "<" character. Hence the console.log error unexpected token "<" on the first line, first character.

My variable/call is below:

var flickerAPI = "https://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?format=json&jsoncallback=?";

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

It's not clear from just this code.

But this code probably needs an HTML and a CSS component to work. You might use a workspace "snapshot" to share everything at once to facilitate a more complete analysis.

Hunter Phillips
Hunter Phillips
9,310 Points

var flickrOptions = {
tags : animal, format: 'json'*** }

it looks like you forgot to add a property on the flickrOptions (object) variable