Pulling data from .json url causing error with Jquery

Question

I am trying to pull data using a small script I found that seems to work with any other url that produces json data, however when I use it with a url that ends in .json, i will just receive a syntax error.

//error

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token : http://frontier.ffxiv.com/worldStatus/gate_status.json?callback=jQuery21309476937903091311_1450254419566&q=select+title%2Cabstract%2Curl+from+search.news+where+query%3D%22cat%22&format=json&_=1450254419567

//code below

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script>
// Using YQL and JSONP
$.ajax({
    url: "http://frontier.ffxiv.com/worldStatus/gate_status.json",

    // The name of the callback parameter, as specified by the YQL service
    jsonp: "callback",

    // Tell jQuery we're expecting JSONP
    dataType: "jsonp",

    // Tell YQL what we want and that we want JSON
    data: {
        q: "select title,abstract,url from search.news where query=\"cat\"",
        format: "json"
    },

    // Work with the response
    success: function( response ) {
        console.log( response ); // server response
    }
});
</script>

what is the error on console?

gurvinder372
– gurvinder372

2015-12-16 08:29:00 +00:00
Commented Dec 16, 2015 at 8:29 — gurvinder372
– gurvinder372, Commented Dec 16, 2015 at 8:29
I've added the error into the description, sorry.

ssj3goku878
– ssj3goku878

2015-12-16 08:30:29 +00:00
Commented Dec 16, 2015 at 8:30 — ssj3goku878
– ssj3goku878, Commented Dec 16, 2015 at 8:30
Use datatype json instead of jsonp

Roshan
– Roshan

2015-12-16 08:35:44 +00:00
Commented Dec 16, 2015 at 8:35 — Roshan
– Roshan, Commented Dec 16, 2015 at 8:35

adeneo · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-16 08:34:12Z

5

The URL you're doing the ajax request to doesn't deliver JSONP, just regular JSON.

You get a parse error because the result is something like

{"status":0}

while jQuery expects something like

callback({"status":0})

Unfortunately it doesn't look like CORS is supported either, so the data from that URL can't be gotten from the clientside, due to the same-origin policy.

answered Dec 16, 2015 at 8:34

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adeneo Over a year ago

Sure, if you control the server on ffxiv.com you add the appropriate Access headers. If you don't control the server on ffxiv.com there's nothing you can do, you'd have to write a serverside script to get the data, and then use ajax to run the serverside script on your own server.

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