API jQuery.get seems simple but I can't get it

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Very new to API, and I'm sure I'm not doing this right - I know because it's not working! I just want to use jQuery's get to pull that simple API and spit it out. This is my first dabble in API. I read the documentation but I'm obviously not understanding it right. Thanks for any assitance.

$.get("http://dogechain.info/chain/Dogecoin/q/addressbalance/DT4FWFTjrAA4AvFtkPbVJK3ApYtPHcNnC8", function(data) {
  alert(data);
});

that url displays "500" only when opened, do you get "500" when you do alert(data)? — Sam Battat, Feb 19 '14 at 18:39
Testing it in jsfiddle and I get nothing - not even the alert — user3058518, Feb 19 '14 at 18:42
It wont work in fiddle because of `'Access-Control-Allow-Origin'` — Aditya, Feb 19 '14 at 18:44
Open your console(F12). Do you see any red text related to this get request? — Kevin B, Feb 19 '14 at 18:50
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error) http://jobs.jsfiddle.net/random.js?callback=Request.JSONP.request_map.request_0 Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined — user3058518, Feb 19 '14 at 18:55
Aditya, looks like you were right "Origin http://fiddle.jshell.net is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. " How else can I test these GET commands? — user3058518, Feb 19 '14 at 18:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 21 '14 at 20:48

$.getJSON('http://whateverorigin.org/get?url=' + encodeURIComponent('http://dogechain.info/chain/Dogecoin/q/addressbalance/DT4FWFTjrAA4AvFtkPbVJK3ApYtPHcNnC8') + '&callback=?', function(data){
    alert(data.contents + ' doges');
});

The problem is the same-origin policy, which doesn't allow you to load content from other domains.This method uses http://whateverorigin.org to get the info.

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API jQuery.get seems simple but I can't get it

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