Using the Yahoo Weather API with JSON and the script tag

Question

I\'m trying to get the Yahoo Weather with JavaScript. I originally made a proxy, but found that clumsy.

So can get the JSON response from http://weather.yahooapis.co

Answer 1

If you're expecting JSON-P then you need to add a callback function name to the query. With jQuery, this is always ?. jQuery will substitute it with a randomly generated function name:

var query = escape('select item from weather.forecast where location="CAXX0518"'),
    url = "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=" + query + "&format=json&callback=?"; 

$.getJSON(url, function(data) {
  console.log( data );
});