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Asked: 2026-05-25T16:19:43+00:00

I’m new with jQuery and JavaScript. I’m trying to make a HTTP GET request

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I’m new with jQuery and JavaScript. I’m trying to make a HTTP GET request with the get() function. Below I’ve reported a part of my code. I don’t understand why the http request doesn’t work. Thanks for any advice!

    var jqxhr = $.get("http://lyricwiki.org/api.php?func=getSong&artist=Tool&song=Schism&fmt=xml", 
    function() {
         alert("success");
     })
    .success(function() { alert("second success"); })
    .error(function() { alert("error"); })
    .complete(function() { alert("complete"); });
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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m assuming you’re serving this on a different domain than lyricwiki.org, in which case you’re violating the same origin policy.

    Edit: the good news is that they seem to have a funky alternative to JSONP that will let you request it cross-domain as a raw JavaScript file: http://lyrics.wikia.com/LyricWiki:REST#Response_Formats. Here’s an example: http://lyrics.wikia.com/api.php?artist=Slipknot&song=Before_I_Forget&fmt=js

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