You can pull data from their API into a server-side process and then pass it
along (filtered or raw) to your browser. But browser security won't let you
access JSON data from a different-origin server.
It's not NYTimes.com's fault; it's the cross-site scripting jerks who made
the security necessary in the first place.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Nate Hill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wait- what would be the point of their API if I couldn't run anything on a
> domain other than nytimes.com?
> Thanks everyone for the pointers. I'll get back to it!
> If I can pull the first 5 titles from the different best seller lists, and
> then using the ISBN build a link to those titles in the library catalog, I
> will have made something useful which I will gladly share back to the list.
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Godmar Back <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Are you trying to run this inside a webpage served from a domain other
> than
> > nytimes.com?
> > If so, you'd need to use JSONP, which a cursory examination of their API
> > documentation reveals they do not support. So, you need to use a proxy.
> >
> > Here's one:
> > $ cat hardcover.php
> > <?
> > $cb = @$_GET['callback'];
> >
> > $json = file_get_contents('
> >
> >
> http://api.nytimes.com/svc/books/v2/lists/hardcover-fiction.json?&api-key=xxxx
> > '
> > );
> > header("Content-Type: text/javascript");
> > echo $cb . '(' . $json . ')';
> >
> > ?>
> >
> > Install it on your webserver, then change your JavaScript code to refer
> to
> > it using callback=?.
> >
> > For instance, if you installed it on
> > http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/nytimes/hardcover.php
> > then you would be using the URL
> > http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/nytimes/hardcover.php?callback=?
> > (.getJSON will replace the ? with a suitably generated function name).
> >
> > - Godmar
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Nate Hill <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody out there using the NY times best seller API to do stuff on
> their
> > > library websites?
> > > I can't figure out what's wrong with my code here.
> > > Data is returned as "null"; I can't seem to parse the response with
> > jQuery.
> > > Any help would be supercool.
> > > I removed the API key - my code doesn't actually contain 'xxxx'.
> > > Here's the jQuery:
> > >
> > > jQuery(document).ready(function(){
> > > $(function(){
> > > //json request to new york times
> > > $.getJSON('
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://api.nytimes.com/svc/books/v2/lists/hardcover-fiction.json?&api-key=xxxx
> > > ',
> > >
> > > function(data) {
> > > //loop through the results with the following
> > > function
> > > $.each(data.results.book_details,
> > function(i,item){
> > > //turn the title into a variable
> > > var bookTitle = item.title;
> > > $('#container').append('<p>'+bookTitle+'</p>');
> > >
> > > });
> > > });
> > > });
> > > });
> > >
> > >
> > > Here's a snippet of the JSON response:
> > >
> > > {
> > > "status": "OK",
> > > "copyright": "Copyright (c) 2011 The New York Times Company. All
> > Rights
> > > Reserved.",
> > > "num_results": 35,
> > > "last_modified": "2011-09-23T12:00:29-04:00",
> > > "results": [{
> > > "list_name": "Hardcover Fiction",
> > > "display_name": "Hardcover Fiction",
> > > "updated": "WEEKLY",
> > > "bestsellers_date": "2011-09-17",
> > > "published_date": "2011-10-02",
> > > "rank": 1,
> > > "rank_last_week": 0,
> > > "weeks_on_list": 1,
> > > "asterisk": 0,
> > > "dagger": 0,
> > > "isbns": [{
> > > "isbn10": "0399157786",
> > > "isbn13": "9780399157783"
> > > }],
> > > "book_details": [{
> > > "title": "NEW YORK TO DALLAS",
> > > "description": "An escaped child molester pursues Lt. Eve
> > > Dallas; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.",
> > > "contributor": "by J. D. Robb",
> > > "author": "J D Robb",
> > > "contributor_note": "",
> > > "price": 27.95,
> > > "age_group": "",
> > > "publisher": "Putnam",
> > > "primary_isbn13": "9780399157783",
> > > "primary_isbn10": "0399157786"
> > > }],
> > > "reviews": [{
> > > "book_review_link": "",
> > > "first_chapter_link": "",
> > > "sunday_review_link": "",
> > > "article_chapter_link": ""
> > > }]
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Nate Hill
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > > http://www.natehill.net
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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