Console logging a parsed JSON object from an external API?

Asked Jun 08 '17 at 13:55

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I want to display my JSON object from an AJAX call to an external API. Though I'm new to JavaScript and AJAX and unsure how. I basically want to see if I can print out the JSON object, the parse an element out of it later (id) but I'm unsure how to print my entire JSON object to the console.

var results = "";
var movieTitle = "Scary Movie"
$.ajax("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=<<MYAPIKEY>>&query="+movieTitle,function(data){
    results = JSON.parse(data);
});
console.log(JSON.stringify(results));

All I get when I log that is empty string.

Any help?

asked Jun 08 '17 at 13:55

Carson

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Yep, super mega classic beginner mistake. Javascript is asynchronous. EDIT : _Ajax calls_ are asynchronous. – Jeremy Thille Jun 08 '17 at 13:57
Call the `console.log()` inside the `$.ajax()` and not need to do: `JSON.parse(data)` – Yosvel Quintero Jun 08 '17 at 13:57
Because Ajax is asynchronous and `results` will still be `""` – George Jun 08 '17 at 13:57
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@JeremyThille _Javascript is asynchronous_ I'm fairly sure JavaScript is synchronous. – George Jun 08 '17 at 13:59
ajax is asynchronous. the problem here is that you get the value later than expected. – Semi-Friends Jun 08 '17 at 13:59
Yes okay sorry, my bad. Ajax calls are asynchronous. – Jeremy Thille Jun 08 '17 at 14:00

Console logging a parsed JSON object from an external API?

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