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Tony Atkinson
4,498 PointsJSON Data Requests In General From a Webiste or Blog That's not Mine
I'm having a little bit of a hard time understanding how to request JSON data from a website, or if that is even the way to put it. I completely understand how parsing the data works once the data is stored into an object, but the URL that treehouse provides already has the JSON data laid out, and does not explain how this data could be gathered from the blog website itself. Say I wanted to gather the JSON data from a wordpress website, or any other blog, how would I go about doing so within objective C, if all I had was the basic URL to start with?
2 Answers
Patrick Cooney
12,216 PointsYou can't write client side code that will make a website respond with JSON. That is entirely a server side task. To get JSON back from a website the website you are connecting to has to have the ability to serve a JSON response. Not all sites have this. Usually you will have to go to the developer section of a website to find their API documentation, if they have one at all.
Alan Fisher
1,612 PointsI'm having the same problem, I am currently building a blog reader for a wordpress created website. what is the best way to get the Json data? any help would be great
Patrick Cooney
12,216 PointsIf you're talking about a wordpress website you created you can look into plugins that serve a JSON response. I think those are a thing and I'm not just making it up. If you don't own the website then you're sort of out of luck on this. That is unless the owner would be willing to install one of those plugins for you.
Tony Atkinson
4,498 PointsTony Atkinson
4,498 PointsAh, that makes complete sense, thanks for the help!
Patrick Cooney
12,216 PointsPatrick Cooney
12,216 PointsNo problem. I should have added from the start, if you're looking to do this for your own website you can watch some of the rails or PHP videos here to learn the basics then google how to serve JSON responses.