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iOS Build a Blog Reader iPhone App Getting Data from the Web Downloading and Parsing JSON Data

Posted by John Carr
John Carr
Courses Plus Student 1,984 Points

JSONVIEW

I am trying to use jsonview but am not quite sure how it works. Is there certain webpages it will work on only? I am looking to trying to do a blog viewer similar to the treehouse one but on a different blog site. Is it possible to use json viewer on this page? http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/forum/blog.php?mode=recent_blogs

Any tips and advice are welcome. Even pages i can practice on. Thanks.

2 Answers

Roger Lüchinger
Roger Lüchinger
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Roger Lüchinger
Roger Lüchinger
11,403 Points

No, http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/forum/blog.php?mode=recent_blogs does not show JSON data (it shows HTML), so JSONView will not pick it up. I am not too familiar with phpBB, the forum software you are using. But generally, most CMSs or bulletin board scripts will either already come with a JSON API or have a plug-in that you can install to make your content availabe in JSON format. I suggest you check the phpBB documentation / support section to see if phpBB supports JSON feeds out of the box: https://www.phpbb.com/support/documentation/3.0/

Just to make this clear: JSONView will not magically transform HTML into JSON for you. JSONView only helps making (existing) JSON data more human readable.

John Carr
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John Carr
Courses Plus Student 1,984 Points
John Carr
John Carr
Courses Plus Student 1,984 Points

Thanks Roger, I was interested in practicing on a few more blogs. I just finished the IOS7 project of creating a blog reading app using http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/api/get_recent_summary/ as the page i was getting the JSON data. Do i need /api in the url of a blog to get the JSON data from it? Amit Bijlani can you give me some insight on pages that i can access json data like in the project to practice with?