Error with Google finance match

Question

I'm using jQuery, jQuery-UI auto complete along with this link as source

https://www.google.com/finance/match?matchtype=matchall&callback=callback&q=aa&_=1379423108762

here is my code:

    $("#searchinput").autocomplete({
    source: function (request, response) {
    var q=request.term;  
    $.ajax({
          type: "GET",
          // url: "http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc", for http use only


          url: "https://www.google.com/finance/match?matchtype=matchall",
          data: {q: q},
          dataType: "jsonp",
          contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
          jsonp : "callback",
          jsonpCallback: "callback",


      });
      // call back function
      callback = function (data) {           
            var suggestions = [];


            //alert(JSON.stringify(data.matches));                            
            $.each(data.matches, function(i, val) {                                                               
                suggestions.push("Name:"+ val.n+" #Symbol:"+val.t+" #Exchange:"+val.e);
            });

        response(suggestions);
      }

 },
minLength: 1,
select: function (event, ui) {

           $("#searchinput").val(ui.item.value.split("#")[0]);

 },
 });

I get the following error

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token :

here you can see the bug image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/NYMPG.jpg

Welcome to Stack Overflow. You really, *really* don't need to put "[possible duplicate]" in the question. If it is a duplicate, you already found the answer. Otherwise, it is OK. Good luck! — Kobi, Sep 17 '13 at 13:17
Their server is not returning you JSONP. Your jQuery is expecting that, so it's not working. — gen_Eric, Sep 17 '13 at 13:18
@RocketHazmat yeah i guess the server is just returning JSON & cross domain origin policy won't allow me to access json..So should i try yql to get data? — Shreyansh, Sep 18 '13 at 07:16
@Shreyansh: You can use that, or your own server-side proxy. Not sure if it's against Google's TOS, though. You can also use YQL to get Yahoo's finance data instead. — gen_Eric, Sep 18 '13 at 13:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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The URL is not returning JSON-P. The error message is because JSON-P works by loading a remote JavaScript (and that isn't what the URL returns).

Since you aren't Google, you can't make that URL return JSON-P.

I'd suggest alternative approaches to getting the data, but Google don't provide an API for that data so you would be walking into Terms of Service violation territory.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Sep 17 '13 at 13:17

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the stream of google finance I'm using it is still working,can't we term that as an undocumented api & use that for my project? – Shreyansh Sep 18 '13 at 07:20

Error with Google finance match

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