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How do I save external JSON data to a JavaScript variable? [duplicate]

I have this JSON file I generate in the server I want to make accessible on the client as the page is viewable. Basically what I want to achieve is:
I have the following tag declared in my html document:
<script id="test" type="application/json" src="http://myresources/stuf.json">
The file referred in its source has JSON data. As I've seen, data has been downloaded, just like it happens with the scripts.
Now, how do I access it in Javascript? I've tried accessing the script tag, with and without jQuery, using a multitude of methods to try to get my JSON data, but somehow this doesn't work. Getting its innerHTML would have worked had the json data been written inline in the script. Which it wasn't and isn't what I'm trying to achieve.
Remote JSON Request after page loads is also not an option, in case you want to suggest that.

You can't load JSON like that, sorry.
I know you're thinking "why I can't I just use src here? I've seen stuff like this...":
<script id="myJson" type="application/json">
{
name: 'Foo'
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var x = JSON.parse($('#myJson').html());
alert(x.name); //Foo
});
</script>
... well to put it simply, that was just the script tag being "abused" as a data holder. You can do that with all sorts of data. For example, a lot of templating engines leverage script tags to hold templates.
You have a short list of options to load your JSON from a remote file:
Use $.get('your.json') or some other such AJAX method.
Write a file that sets a global variable to your json. (seems hokey).
Pull it into an invisible iframe, then scrape the contents of that after it's loaded (I call this "1997 mode")
Consult a voodoo priest.
Final point:
Remote JSON Request after page loads is also not an option, in case you want to suggest that.
... that doesn't make sense. The difference between an AJAX request and a request sent by the browser while processing your <script src=""> is essentially nothing. They'll both be doing a GET on the resource. HTTP doesn't care if it's done because of a script tag or an AJAX call, and neither will your server.

Another solution would be to make use of a server-side scripting language and to simply include json-data inline. Here's an example that uses PHP:
<script id="data" type="application/json"><?php include('stuff.json'); ?></script>
<script>
var jsonData = JSON.parse(document.getElementById('data').textContent)
</script>
The above example uses an extra script tag with type application/json. An even simpler solution is to include the JSON directly into the JavaScript:
<script>var jsonData = <?php include('stuff.json');?>;</script>
The advantage of the solution with the extra tag is that JavaScript code and JSON data are kept separated from each other.

It would appear this is not possible, or at least not supported.
From the HTML5 specification:
When used to include data blocks (as opposed to scripts), the data must be embedded inline, the format of the data must be given using the type attribute, the src attribute must not be specified, and the contents of the script element must conform to the requirements defined for the format used.

While it's not currently possible with the script tag, it is possible with an iframe if it's from the same domain.
<iframe
id="mySpecialId"
src="/my/link/to/some.json"
onload="(()=>{if(!window.jsonData){window.jsonData={}}try{window.jsonData[this.id]=JSON.parse(this.contentWindow.document.body.textContent.trim())}catch(e){console.warn(e)}this.remove();})();"
onerror="((err)=>console.warn(err))();"
style="display: none;"
></iframe>
To use the above, simply replace the id and src attribute with what you need. The id (which we'll assume in this situation is equal to mySpecialId) will be used to store the data in window.jsonData["mySpecialId"].
In other words, for every iframe that has an id and uses the onload script will have that data synchronously loaded into the window.jsonData object under the id specified.
I did this for fun and to show that it's "possible' but I do not recommend that it be used.
Here is an alternative that uses a callback instead.
<script>
function someCallback(data){
/** do something with data */
console.log(data);
}
function jsonOnLoad(callback){
const raw = this.contentWindow.document.body.textContent.trim();
try {
const data = JSON.parse(raw);
/** do something with data */
callback(data);
}catch(e){
console.warn(e.message);
}
this.remove();
}
</script>
<!-- I frame with src pointing to json file on server, onload we apply "this" to have the iframe context, display none as we don't want to show the iframe -->
<iframe src="your/link/to/some.json" onload="jsonOnLoad.apply(this, someCallback)" style="display: none;"></iframe>
Tested in chrome and should work in firefox. Unsure about IE or Safari.

I agree with Ben. You cannot load/import the simple JSON file.
But if you absolutely want to do that and have flexibility to update json file, you can
my-json.js
var myJSON = {
id: "12ws",
name: "smith"
}
index.html
<head>
<script src="my-json.js"></script>
</head>
<body onload="document.getElementById('json-holder').innerHTML = JSON.stringify(myJSON);">
<div id="json-holder"></div>
</body>

place something like this in your script file json-content.js
var mainjson = { your json data}
then call it from script tag
<script src="json-content.js"></script>
then you can use it in next script
<script>
console.log(mainjson)
</script>

Check this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7346598/1764509
$.getJSON("test.json", function(json) {
console.log(json); // this will show the info it in firebug console
});

If you need to load JSON from another domain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP
However be aware of potential XSSI attacks:
https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20160414
If it's the same domain so just use Ajax.

Another alternative to use the exact json within javascript. As it is Javascript Object Notation you can just create your object directly with the json notation. If you store this in a .js file you can use the object in your application. This was a useful option for me when I had some static json data that I wanted to cache in a file separately from the rest of my app.
//Just hard code json directly within JS
//here I create an object CLC that represents the json!
$scope.CLC = {
"ContentLayouts": [
{
"ContentLayoutID": 1,
"ContentLayoutTitle": "Right",
"ContentLayoutImageUrl": "/Wasabi/Common/gfx/layout/right.png",
"ContentLayoutIndex": 0,
"IsDefault": true
},
{
"ContentLayoutID": 2,
"ContentLayoutTitle": "Bottom",
"ContentLayoutImageUrl": "/Wasabi/Common/gfx/layout/bottom.png",
"ContentLayoutIndex": 1,
"IsDefault": false
},
{
"ContentLayoutID": 3,
"ContentLayoutTitle": "Top",
"ContentLayoutImageUrl": "/Wasabi/Common/gfx/layout/top.png",
"ContentLayoutIndex": 2,
"IsDefault": false
}
]
};

While not being supported, there is an common alternative to get json into javascript. You state that "remote json request" it is not an option but you may want to consider it since it may be the best solution there is.
If the src attribute was supported, it would be doing a remote json request, so I don't see why you would want to avoid that while actively seeking to do it in an almost same fashion.
Solution :
<script>
async function loadJson(){
const res = await fetch('content.json');
const json = await res.json();
}
loadJson();
</script>
Advantages
allows caching, make sure your hosting/server sets that up properly
on chrome, after profiling using the performance tab, I noticed that it has the smallest CPU footprint compared to : inline JS, inline JSON, external JS.

Correct parsing of JSON

First of all, forgive me if any of this code is bad, inefficient, or completely wrong, I haven't worked with JSON at all before, or any sort of API work.
So, I'm just trying to create a basic webpage which will display some information from the JSON obtained through JSONP (did I implement it correctly...?). I thought that I was accessing the id element correctly but it seems not as I've tried getting it to show up with alert, console.log, and setting the inner html of the paragraph. Here is the code:
HTML
</head>
<body>
<p id="main">
test
</p>
</body>
<script src="js/parseJSON.js"></script>
<script type="application/json" src="https://www.aviationweather.gov/gis/scripts/MetarJSON.php?taf=true&bbox=-86,41,-82,45&callback=parseJSON"></script>
</html>
Javascript
var parseJSON = function(json) {
var obj = JSON.parse(json);
console.log(obj.features[0].properties.id);
}
This seems like something simple I'm just screwing up. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I'm just trying to create a basic webpage which will display some information from the JSON obtained through JSONP (did I implement it correctly...?).
You said type="application/json" so the browser ignored it because it doesn't know how to execute scripts written in JSON.
JSONP is not JSON, it is JavaScript, so the correct Content Type is application/javascript.
Further https://www.aviationweather.gov/gis/scripts/MetarJSON.php?taf=true&bbox=-86,41,-82,45&callback=parseJSON returns JSON not JSONP.
var parseJSON = function(json) {
var obj = JSON.parse(json);
While it is possible for a JSONP service to provide data in the form of a JavaScript string containing JSON, that is never something I've seen. The argument should not be parsed as JSON. It should be a regular JavaScript data structure.
… but first you need the service to return JSONP.

Extract data from JSON API using Javascript

How do I extract the data below. I only want to print out the value number after "networkdiff" in this API.
This is the URL for the API from a different website:
http://21.luckyminers.com/index.php?page=api&action=getpoolstatus&api_key=8dba7050f9fea1e6a554bbcf4c3de5096795b253b45525c53562b72938771c41
I want the code to automatically retrieve the data from the URL above, and display the value after "networkdiff" to display on my other webpage.
Here's my code so far that I will put in my own webpage:
<HTML>
<body>
<script>
I don't know what I should put in this script part.
</script>
</body>
</html>
Below is the data the URL showed up as:
{
"getpoolstatus":{
"version":"1.0.0",
"runtime":10.684967041016,
"data":{
"pool_name":"21 Coin Pool # Luckyminers.com",
"hashrate":0,
"efficiency":97.79,
"workers":0,
"currentnetworkblock":0,
"nextnetworkblock":1,
"lastblock":40544,
"networkdiff":1,
"esttime":0,
"estshares":4096,
"timesincelast":1240429,
"nethashrate":0
}
}
}

Since the data is coming from an external domain, you can't use Ajax to get the data, unless the server enabled CORS. This doesn't seem to be the case, but it seems to support JSONP:
<script>
function processResponse(data) {
console.log(data);
}
</script>
<script src="http://21.luckyminers.com/index.php?page=api&...&callback=processResponse></script>
The callback=parseResponse makes the server return JS consisting of a function call to processResponse. How to access the information you actually want is explained in Access / process (nested) objects, arrays or JSON.

You need to include JSON.js in your web page to use JSON function in javascript. Here is the URL for download
https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js
And then you can use beloe code to parse the JOSN string into javascript object.
var objectJSON = JSON.parse(jsonStr);
You can alse used stringify fucntion to the viceversa.

In which way you call the JSON?
You can call it with a callback function (working example), including it as a script:
updateResult=function()
{
var s=document.createElement('script');
s.src=domain+"/index.php?page=api&callback=showResult&action=getpoolstatus&api_key="+api_key;
document.body.appendChild(s);
}
You must have the callback defined like:
showResult=function(data)
{
document.getElementById('result').innerText=data.getpoolstatus.data.networkdiff;
}
If you call it with JQuery and get the JSON object, you can define the callback in the argument like the following example, but you must have same-origin (your script must run with the same domain (21.luckyminers.com in this case):
$.getJSON(
domain+"/index.php?page=api&action=getpoolstatus&api_key="+api_key,
function(data)
{
document.getElementById('result').innerText=data.getpoolstatus.data.networkdiff;
}
);
But in any case, be careful. Where did you get the API key? If you put it on a client-side script (like JavaScript) anybody can read the key, and with that key maybe do some damage… :S

Output data from TaffyDB

I'm new to JavaScript and am trying to build a script that performs some data management activities(Basically query based data fetching from a database and then displaying it on a webpage).
I generally would do this on the server side with PHP and mysql but my boss want's to see a "sample" before investing in servers etc. (He has no technical knowledge regarding PHP,MySQL etc)
Now without a server I was looking for a way to build a similar system on the client side mostly via javascript. Just to demonstrate the logic I plan on implementing.
For the database part I decided to use TaffyDB, however am having issues getting an output from the database(Display the data on a webpage)
Here's my code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="taffydb-master\taffy.js"></script>
<script>
var companies = TAFFY
([
{name:"New York",state:"WA"},
{name:"New Shire",state:"WE"},
{name:"Las Vegas",state:"NV"},
{name:"Boston",state:"MA"}
]);
var cities = new Array();
var cities = companies().select("name");
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script>
document.write = (cities[1]);
</script>
</body>
</html>
I know there's some silly mistake in there but really can't find it. I tried using the developer's tools (Mozilla's default one) but it returns no issues. I basically just get a blank white page when I load this file.

You are using document.write incorrectly. It is a method.
If you change your code to:
<script>
document.write(cities[1]);
</script>
then you will get this output:
New Shire
Also, you should probably wrap the output in some element like so:
<script>
document.write("<p>" + cities[1] + "</p>");
</script>

Using last.fm API in javascript

I have very little experience with web development. I have a little experience with HTML and I am learning JavaScript right now. I created a program in Java using a a last.fm library for Java. I was able to get user information, artist information, and venue information. Now I want to try and do that in a webpage, which is where my problem occurs.
I'm using the javascript last.fm api given here http://github.com/fxb/javascript-last.fm-api
I've downloaded all the .js files and they are in the same directory as my .htm file.
This is my code so far.
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lastfm.api.md5.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lastfm.api.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lastfm.api.cache.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var cache = new LastFMCache();
var lastfm = new LastFM({
apiKey : 'c9946d11aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace',
apiSecret : '9dabf9aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaxxx11ec3c7a993',
cache : cache
});
lastfm.artist.getInfo({artist: 'The xx'}, {success: function(data){
/* Use Data */
}, error: function(code, message){
/* Show error message. */
}});
</script>
</body>
</html>
I've dug around in the included .js files to try and understand what is going on. So on my initialization of lastfm, I am passing in some objects with associated values, which are then applied to lastfm. If I try and access them through document.write(lastfm.apiKey) I get an undefined value, which I don't really understand.
Also I see that I am calling getInfo and passing in 'The xx' and everything that follows. I don't understand how to use that Data that I believe is returned as a JSON response. How can I print the bio that is associated with that artist?

the code that should go where you have written /* Use Data */ will refer to items such as data.bio. Try alert(data) to see what's in there.
I would also highly recommend using a JavaScript debugging console such as FireBug in order to really see what's going on.

i just used this, and yeah. you just need to console.log(data) in the success to get info about the data that is being passed back from last fm