Question

So I have this Foursquare API..When I hit it on my browser it gives me JSON response back.

https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?ll=40.7,-74&callback=MY_FUNCTION_NAME

How can I wrap this in JQuery, and then use the JSON object as normal?

The response is this:

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Answer 1

You can use a jsonp format to make it work here is how

$.getJSON("https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?ll=40.7,-74&callback=?",
  {
    format: "json"
  },
  function(data) {
    alert(data)
  });

I don’t remember off top of my head but format:jsonp might be optional because you already did callback=?