Question

I’m trying to get a JSON string using the Google Spreadsheets Data API. I’m trying to start out easy, just have an alert box pop up after the JSON string is successfully loaded.

$(function(){
  var json_uri = "https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AvC4NUSdTIgddFJnUFRkcnI0QkJDLVg2eklZd0FZVVE/od6/public/values?alt=json";
  $.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: json_uri,
    success: function(data){
      alert("success");
    }
  });
});

But I never see the alert box. What’s happening? I’m new to both JSON and the Spreadsheets API, so hopefully this is just some simple thing I’m overlooking.

Google’s sample page: http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/samples/spreadsheet_sample.html

My jsbin example page: http://jsbin.com/otuxiv/11

Answer 1

I’d set a dataType for the ajax call to dataType: ‘jsonp’, and also try changing

var json_uri = "https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AvC4NUSdTIgddFJnUFRkcnI0QkJDLVg2eklZd0FZVVE/od6/public/values?alt=json";

to

var json_uri = "//spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AvC4NUSdTIgddFJnUFRkcnI0QkJDLVg2eklZd0FZVVE/od6/public/values?alt=json";

Haven’t had time to test but might get you past the IE error.