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    copied!<p>I'm trying to use Envato API to gather some user stats w/ jQuery. I'll show an example response JSON:</p> <pre><code>{ "new-files-from-user":[ { "thumbnail":"http://3.s3.envato.com/files/60560.jpg", "tags":"", "user":"collis", "url":"http://themeforest.net/item/manilla-photoshop-design/22803", "live_preview_url":"http://2.s3.envato.com/files/60561/1_Home.__large_preview.jpg", "uploaded_on":"Wed Dec 03 03:32:35 +1100 2008", "cost":"10.00", "item":"Manilla Photoshop Design", "sales":"294", "rating":"4", "id":"22803" }, { "thumbnail":"http://2.s3.envato.com/files/60223.jpg", "tags":"clean", "user":"collis", "url":"http://themeforest.net/item/black-white-simple-theme/22705", "live_preview_url":"http://0.s3.envato.com/files/60224/1_home.__large_preview.jpg", "uploaded_on":"Tue Dec 02 04:01:12 +1100 2008", "cost":"8.00","item":"Black + White Simple Theme", "sales":"272"," rating":"4", "id":"22705" }, { "thumbnail":"http://1.s3.envato.com/files/44556.jpg", "tags":"clean", "user":"collis", "url":"http://themeforest.net/item/quik-v1-admin-skin/17314", "live_preview_url":"http://3.s3.envato.com/files/44557/1_green.__large_preview.jpg", "uploaded_on":"Fri Sep 05 07:30:24 +1000 2008","cost":"12.00", "item":"Quik v1 Admin Skin", "sales":"336", "rating":"5", "id":"17314" }, {"thumbnail":"http://3.s3.envato.com/files/45212.jpg", "tags":"clean", "user":"collis", "url":"http://themeforest.net/item/freshcorp-business-template/17528", "live_preview_url":"http://3.s3.envato.com/files/45213/1_Homepage.__large_preview.jpg", "uploaded_on":"Tue Sep 09 06:10:50 +1000 2008", "cost":"20.00", "item":"FreshCorp - Business Template", "sales":"277", "rating":"4","id":"17528" }, {"thumbnail":"http://0.s3.envato.com/files/45739.jpg", "tags":"clean", "user":"collis", "url":"http://themeforest.net/item/real-estate-html-template/17732", "live_preview_url":"http://0.s3.envato.com/files/45740/1_homepage.__large_preview.jpg", "uploaded_on":"Fri Sep 12 14:22:45 +1000 2008", "cost":"20.00","item":"Real Estate HTML Template", "sales":"175", "rating":"4", "id":"17732" } ] } </code></pre> <p>Here's my script:</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; //this gets JSON data from an url $.getJSON("http://marketplace.envato.com/api/edge/new-files-from-user:collins,themeforest.json?callback=?", //this function gets called when data has been recieved function(data){ //parsing JSON data, line by line(like foreach) $.each(data['new-items-from-user'], function(i,item){ //puts all titles in our div $("#test").append(item.item+"&lt;br /&gt;"); }); }); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;div id="test"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>And here's what I get in the Chrome console: 'Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected Token :' (pic <a href="http://imgur.com/8qoqO" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/8qoqO</a>).</p> <p>I'm not sure if I have an error in my code that's causing this problem, but here's a fiddle to see the result: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/wkmDj/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/wkmDj/</a></p> <p>Thanks, Matt</p>
 

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