I am trying to get json data from: http://api.dailymile.com/entries.json Then I wish to display this data in a table. The below code works when the json link points to a file already on my computer, but not when referring to a URL.
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"> </script>
<script>
$(function() {
var entries = [];
var dmJSON = "http://api.dailymile.com/entries.json";
$.getJSON( dmJSON, function(data) {
$.each(data.entries, function(i, f) {
var tblRow = "<tr>" + "<td>" + f.id + "</td>" + "<td>" + f.user.username + "</td>" + "<td>" + f.message + "</td>" + "<td> " + f.location + "</td>" + "<td>" + f.at + "</td>" + "</tr>"
$(tblRow).appendTo("#entrydata tbody");
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="profile">
<table id= "entrydata" border="1">
<thead>
<th>ID</th>
<th>UserName</th>
<th>Message</th>
<th>Location</th>
<th>Time</th>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Any help as to why it won't load the json data is appreciated.
This is because the AJAX Same Origin Policy tha won't allow you to fetch data from different domains:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy
Try this instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP
As aldux suggests, a simple way of accessing JSON cross-domain is to use JSONP. In your case, the server (dailymile.com) does support JSONP, so you can simply add a ?callback=? parameter to your url, i.e.