Question

I’m working with an API (DocumentCloud) using jQuery/JSON. I’m trying to retrieve a specific page of text, which the API almost provides.

The returned JSON contains an object called resources.page which offers the following:

text: "http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/293026/pages/ohio-higher-education-capital-funding-p{page}.txt"

The confusing part is the end: p{page}.txt

Is it possible to specify a page in place of {page} and return the content? (If I use “5” instead of {page} and put it into the browser, I see the text I’m looking for.)

Answer 1

Sure, you can use string.replace

    var text = "http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/293026/pages/ohio-higher-education-capital-funding-p{page}.txt",
    urlString = '';

urlString = text.replace('{page}', '5');

$.ajax({
    url: urlString,
    dataType: 'jsonp',
    success : function (response) {
        alert(response);
    }
});
​

Test it here: http://jsfiddle.net/dy22q/

..fredrik