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
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