Receive .csv file as data in ajax success function

Question

Please consider this javascript:

$.ajax({
    url:\'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=GS&a=00&b=1&c=2010&d=08&a         


        

Answer 1

Unfortunately, cross-domain restrictions mean that this just isn't going to work. The system is built specifically so that you can't pull arbitrary cross-domain content with AJAX. There isn't any sort of pre-parse method to convert the non-JSONP data you're getting into actual JSONP data (because that would defeat the point of the restrictions).

You're going to have to either make a call to a local server that pulls the data from Yahoo! and sends it to your AJAX request, or find a service of some kind that will pull from an arbitrary URL and return the data as JSONP. As it happens, Yahoo! provides just such a service: YQL (Yahoo query language). See this link for more details.

To accomplish what you're wanting, use the code in this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/c5TeM/1/

function get_url(remote_url) {
    $.ajax({
        url: "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?"+
"q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%22"+
encodeURIComponent(remote_url)+
"%22&format=json",
        type: 'get',
        dataType: 'jsonp',
        success: function(data) {
            alert(data.query.results.body.p);
        },
        error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrow){
            alert(jqXHR['responseText']);
        }
    })
}