d3.js get JSON from url

Question

The situation is that i am trying to get d3 to read a JSON file which is stored in Windows Azure Blob storage. If i paste the url into a browser then the file is downloaded

Answer 1

Relevant for 2019:

d3.json("http://127.0.0.1:8080/mydata.json").then( data => {
    console.log(data);
})