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Posted by Neil Quinn
Neil Quinn
768 Points

Getting data from OWN website

Hi, I completed the "blogger app" tutorial by Ben and have everything running fine. I now need to get data from this website here: http://www.ilovelimerick.ie/ The "latest news" section is what I want to target and use in my app (replacing the treehouse blog). What I am wondering is, how can I be sure that JSON is used and not xml or RSS?

Thank you!

3 Answers

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Just a guess, but it looks like a WordPress site. You can request different formats like this one:

http://www.ilovelimerick.ie/?feed=rss

It doesn't look like any JSON feeds are supported (they aren't by default in WordPress). For the BlogReader project, we installed the JSON API plugin for WordPress...perhaps you could do or request that?

Neil Quinn
Neil Quinn
768 Points
Neil Quinn
Neil Quinn
768 Points

cool thanks! I will try this.

Neil Quinn
Neil Quinn
768 Points
Neil Quinn
Neil Quinn
768 Points

Hi Ben,

I installed the JSON plugin for the site and used this:

http://www.ilovelimerick.ie/?json=1

Am I being too broad and targeting the whole page, instead of just the "latest news" section or is that even possible?