Question

I have a solid understanding of HTML and javascript. I have no experience with JSON. I would like to get the data from the URL http://i.wxbug.net/REST/Direct/GetUv.ashx?zip=21044&api_key=vxwdyz3evgtvuv9d5e53sckc and display it on a webpage. I have looked around for a simple tutorial that explains how to retrieve JSON data from a URL without prevail. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

If your page is in different domain, you will encounter the “…not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin” error when you use javascript to access it. However, you could make a proxy page in the server side, fetch the data and then output data.

And then, you could get the data, for example, if you use jQuery, it is very easy like:

$.getJSON(your_proxy_page_url,function(data) {
   console.log(data);
});