Making JSON requests within Emacs

Question

I am in the early stages of writing an Emacs major mode for browsing and contributing to sites on the Stack Exchange network, in much the same way as dired and

Answer 1

The problem with other answers is that Stack Exchange API is GZIP'd and url.el shipped with Emacs does not automatically decompress it.

Take a look at my request.el library which supports automatic decompression (to be honest, I just added the support). Here is an example to fetch the most active question in stackoverflow:

(request
 "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/questions"
 :params '((order . "desc")
           (sort . "activity")
           (site . "stackoverflow"))
 :parser 'json-read
 :success (function*
           (lambda (&key data &allow-other-keys)
             (let* ((item (elt (assoc-default 'items data) 0))
                    (title (assoc-default 'title item))
                    (tags (assoc-default 'tags item)))
               (message "%s %S" title tags)))))

request.el is well documented, comes with executable examples and is well tested.