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Adedeji Awodele
1,964 PointsHow do you know the url from which JSON data can be gotten?
Hi guys!
I was going through the videos for the iOS course: Build a simple blog reader; and was wondering if there is a way to know the url from which the json data for each website can be obtained.
What I mean is, in the video, the teacher readily provided the url (blog.teamtreehouse.com/api/get_recent_summary) to download the json data from but what if I wanted to get the json data for some random website, how do I know the url to access?
Kindly help.
Cheers.
2 Answers
Aaron Daub
Courses Plus Student 96 PointsYou don't :) you can sometimes guess though! For example, appending .json to a URL sometimes returns the JSON version of that document. So www.reddit.com/.json returns JSON. Sites that want you to use their JSON will usually tell you about it and where you can find it through their API documentation.
If a site doesn't want you using their JSON you should probably respect that wish, but you can also sniff around and see if there's an undocumented API somewhere.
Harish Manchaiah
129 PointsI had this question too, thank you.
Otto Wichmann
4,827 PointsOtto Wichmann
4,827 PointsI was also wondering this, thank you for the reply.
Cheers.
Adedeji Awodele
1,964 PointsAdedeji Awodele
1,964 PointsHa, thanks a lot for the reply Aaron! :)
Cheers.