JavaScript AJAX Displaying the top JavaScript questions of the month from Stack Overflow's API
Example
We can make an AJAX request to Stack Exchange's API to retrieve a list of the top JavaScript questions for the month, then present them as a list of links. If the request fails or the returns an API error, our promise error handling displays the error instead.
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const url =
'http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?site=stackoverflow' +
'&tagged=javascript&sort=month&filter=unsafe&key=gik4BOCMC7J9doavgYteRw((';
fetch(url).then(response => response.json()).then(data => {
if (data.error_message) {
throw new Error(data.error_message);
}
const list = document.createElement('ol');
document.body.appendChild(list);
for (const {title, link} of data.items) {
const entry = document.createElement('li');
const hyperlink = document.createElement('a');
entry.appendChild(hyperlink);
list.appendChild(entry);
hyperlink.textContent = title;
hyperlink.href = link;
}
}).then(null, error => {
const message = document.createElement('pre');
document.body.appendChild(message);
message.style.color = 'red';
message.textContent = String(error);
});
