Question

I am created myself a custom list with sharepoint 2007, which is exactly the same as any excel spreadsheet in effect.

I was told that i can get this out all of the information as a json or XML object. I don’t have access to the file system, only to sharepoint web interface.

Can i just use a url and do my normal getJson?

    $.getJSON("http://somesharepointurl.asp?get=json",function(results){
        console.info(results);
        $.each(results, function(){

        });
    });

Or is there no way of doing this without writing some backend service?

Edit

https://someserver/sites/DisasterRecovery/eventmgmt/DRR/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=Display&List={B0ACA997-8A41-498B-97FE-B276D48F64D7}&XMLDATA=TRUE

I have tried this… it gave me this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:41:55 GMT
Connection: close

No idea what to look for whatsoever i’m afraid 🙁

Answer 1

Found the simple answer:

jquery.SPServices

you will need jQuery 1.4.2+ to run this but its fantastic 🙂 It has many more method’s than just getting XML or json back.

 var query = "<Query><OrderBy><FieldRef Name='Created' Ascending='False' /></OrderBy</Query>";
 $().SPServices({
     operation:"GetListItems",
     async:false,
     listName:"Home Page Carousel",
     CAMLViewFields:"<ViewFields><FieldRef Name='userName'/><FieldRef Name='userDepartment'/><FieldRef Name='message'/></ViewFields>",
     CAMLQuery:query,
     CAMLRowLimit:10,
     completefunc:function (xData, Status) {
     console.info(xData);
     console.info(Status);
         $(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("z:row").each(function () {
             var $this = $(this);
             $this.attr("ows_message")//retrieve list data here and do stuff here
         });
     }
 });

This will return you a lovely chunk of XML .