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    <p>I have a URL <code>http://myapp.com/get_data</code> that returns an <code>application/json</code> <code>Content-Type</code>. When I browse to that URL, I'd get a plain-text JSON array in my browser window</p> <pre><code>[[key, value], [key, value], [key, value], ...] </code></pre> <p>I also have a JavaScript function that expects data to be in JSON array format</p> <pre><code>function process_data() { var data = // give me more data in JSON array format... } </code></pre> <p>How do I make my JavaScript browse to <code>http://myapp.com/get_data</code> and assign the resulting JSON array into the <code>data</code> variable inside <code>process_data()</code>?</p> <p>I'm new to JavaScript (coming from a Python background) and I would appreciate if you can suggest solutions that use the core JavaScript library. Solutions using other libraries are welcome also, preferably those that are considered best-practice.</p> <h1>UPDATE</h1> <p>It appears I wasn't clear on my question. Let me provide an example from Python. After doing the necessary imports, I can do something like</p> <pre><code>url = "http://myapp.com/get_data" page = urllib2.urlopen(url) page_source = page.read() </code></pre> <p>This time, <code>page_source</code> is already a Python <code>str</code> object that I can easily play with, assign to other variables, etc. If I could mix Python and JavaScript together, for the context of this question, I want to do something like</p> <pre><code>function process_data() { url = "http://myapp.com/get_data" page = urllib2.urlopen(url) page_source = page.read() var data = convert_str_to_JSON(page_source) } </code></pre> <p>Of course that was just an ugly mishmash of a code, but I hope it conveys what I'm trying to get at:</p> <ol> <li>JavaScript will <code>GET</code> a URL.</li> <li>Read the source.</li> <li>Interpret source as JSON.</li> <li>Assign it to a variable.</li> </ol>
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    1. COfirst of all the json you show in your example is not json. its an array of arrays.
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    2. COcopy [[key, value], [key, value], [key, value], ...] to http://jsonlint.com/ and check validity. please paste your actual response.
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    3. CO@naveen. Yes, my example per se is invalid JSON. `key` and `value` are meant to be placeholders. JSONLint didn't say anything about array of arrays being an error. It only complained about expected data types. `[["key", "value"], ["key", "value"]]` are good enough.
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