How do I use external JSON…?

Question

spent a few hours trying to figure this out, but cannot for the life of me figure out what\'s going wrong.

All I\'m trying to do is load this:

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Answer 1

JSONP relies on the server to return a JSONP formatted response. Basically, to use JSONP the server needs to return a JSON string wrapped in a function invocation ({"foo":1} becomes func({"foo":1})).

As the server your using doesn't return a JSONP response, you cannot use JSONP, you can only use JSON.

This is a shame, as JSON cannot be used x-domain due to the same origin policy (SOP). Therefore, the only option you have is to use a proxy server, which retrieves the JSON from the server, and either gives it to you in JSONP (see Yahoo Pipes), or which is on the same domain as the requested page (write a simple PHP script to get the file using file_get_contents() and then echo the output), in which case it can return the JSON.