JSONP example
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27255347/how-can-i-get-a-value-from-another-webpage-and-store-it-as-a-variable
by Financial Modeling Prep
HTML
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-csv/0.71/jquery.csv-0.71.min.js"></script>
<pre id='data'></pre>
JavaScript
// data format [{"target": "snmp.ssbSubstation.realEnergy.1", "datapoints": [[4511552439.0, 1417540920]]}]
// http://www.mocky.io/v2/547df7d558eb49190856a759
(function ($) {
var url = 'https://financialmodelingprep.com/api/v3/search?query=NBR&apikey=demo'; // mocky.io demo source
var jsonCallback = function (data) {
conso.log(data);
var gauge = data[0].datapoints[0][0];
console.log(gauge);
$('#data').html(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
$("</p>").text('value for gauge ' + gauge).appendTo('#data');
};
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: url,
contentType: "application/json",
dataType: 'jsonp'
}).done(jsonCallback)
.fail(function (xhr) {
alert("error" + xhr.responseText);
});
})(jQuery);