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Nicholas D'Amico
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Nicholas D'Amico
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 25,692 Points

Team Treehouse API JSONP Help

I'm trying to make a JSONP request to my profile at https://teamtreehouse.com/nicholasdamico.json. It doesn't seem to be working. I'm not sure if the callback is the problem since nothing is logged to the console, or if the request is setup properly. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. Also i'm not using jQuery.

Thanks, Nick

here is the markup in the index.html file

<script src="assets/scripts/app.js"></script>
     <script type="application/json" src="https://teamtreehouse.com/nicholasdamico.json?callback=treehouse"></script>

And here is the function in my app.js file

 function treehouse(data) {

        console.log(data.points.total);
      }

Also, I added the type="application/json" to the script tag with the request because of an error I was receiving to the console. This is the error message, "because its MIME type ('application/json') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled."

Nicholas D'Amico
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Nicholas D'Amico
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Thanks Mikkel and Seth, I appreciate the responses! I was confused about making XMLHttpRequests to other domains. I'm making a request for HTML within my own domain for this project, but for some reason I thought when requesting from Treehouse I would have to use a method like JSONP. As soon as I tried making a XHR request it returned a JSON string from my profile page and all I had to do is parse it.

Thanks for helping. Nick

2 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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Unless the API docs say it can return a JSONP response it probably doesn't. You're just getting a straight JSON response and should request/handle it appropriately.