Question

I am trying to simply send an alert with a “name”, but It doesn’t seem to work. Advice?

$(document).ready(function() {
$.getJSON("http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/companies/permalink?name=Google", function(data) {
   alert("Hello: " + data.name);
  });
 });

Here is what the JSON contains:

{"crunchbase_url": "http://www.crunchbase.com/company/google",
 "permalink": "google",
 "name": "Google"}   

Answer 1

Normally you’d use JSONP here by adding &callback=? to your URL, however a JSONP callback is not supported in this case, from the crunchbase API documentation:

List Entities

To retrieve a list of all of the entities in a certain namespace on CrunchBase, use a URL of the form:

http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/<plural-namespace>

The plural available namespaces are:

• companies
• people
• financial-organizations
• products
• service-providers

This action does not support JavaScript callbacks.

The bottom line is the most important, you’ll see that this: http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/companies/permalink?name=Google&callback=callme still results in regular JSON, not JSONP.