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Retrieve JSON data from youtube.

mrchow19910319

I am building this website where you can view some specific youtube channel's video.

I am utilizing youtube's data API v3.

 

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And in this video, @ 36:00 the dev actually used jquery's $.getJSON function to make a HTTP request.

    function loadVids() {
        $.getJSON(URL, options, function (data) {
            var id = data.items[0].snippet.resourceId.videoId;
            mainVid(id);
            resultsLoop(data);
        });
    }

But I do not want to use jQuery. I want to try to get the HTTP request using fetch.

Here's my javascript code: 

<deleted cos the API was in it oops>

And in the console, I got this error message, 

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If everything was right, I was supposed to get this result instead: 

 

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So, my question is, where did I got it wrong? 

If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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3 minutes ago, duncannah said:

You're not sending the options


fetch(URL, {
  method: 'POST',
  body: options
})
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then((out) => {
    console.log('Checkout this JSON! ', out);
  })
  .catch(err => {
    throw err
  });

I used the above code got a 401 error, and says log in required. 

Does that mean that If I want to use fetch, I have to use OAuth? 

If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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Use OAuth to ask user to login with their youtube account? 

If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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Whoops, sorry

Try this:

URL += '?' + Object.keys(options).map((k) => k + '=' + encodeURIComponent(options[k])).join('&');

/* your original fetch code */

 

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2 minutes ago, duncannah said:

Whoops, sorry

Try this:


URL += '?' + Object.keys(options).map((k) => k + '=' + encodeURIComponent(options[k])).join('&');

/* your original fetch code */

 

my original code has URL set to const. I changed it to var.

still, same error.

If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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OMG I felt that you are a god that can just spill out code that works....

im so junior...... :( 

 

If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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Just now, mrchow19910319 said:

my original code has URL set to const. I changed it to var.

 still, same error.

Use your old fetch code, not the first one I gave you

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1 minute ago, duncannah said:

Use your old fetch code, not the first one I gave you

it worked,,,, care to explain why??

If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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3 minutes ago, mrchow19910319 said:

it worked,,,, care to explain why??

You didn't send your options (parameters) the first time.

 

On a GET request, the parameters has to be included in the URL (?foo=bar&var1=var2). JQuery's getJSON method can add your parameters to the URL from an object, but the fetch method can't do this yet, so you have to do this yourself (which is what my last code does). 

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21 minutes ago, duncannah said:

You didn't send your options (parameters) the first time.

 

On a GET request, the parameters has to be included in the URL (?foo=bar&var1=var2). JQuery's getJSON method can add your parameters to the URL from an object, but the fetch method can't do this yet, so you have to do this yourself (which is what my last code does). 

may I ask how long have you been into this field??

 

I felt like I know nothing...

If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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