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how to use Fetch to retrieve data from an API
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//For this gist, I'm using a free, public API that shows information about a user's location based on their IP address | |
//here's where I store the API key I was provided with | |
const myKey = 'c00508dc4104c70518fcf49e17216676'; | |
//here's a random IP from the internet | |
const myIp = '191.101.63.2'; | |
//here's the base url | |
const myUrl = 'http://api.ipstack.com/'; | |
function myRequest() { | |
//send the get request | |
fetch(myUrl + myIp +'?access_key='+ myKey +'&format=1') | |
//convert the json response to js object | |
.then(response => response.json()) | |
//put the response in a variable called 'data' and do XYZ with it | |
.then(data => { | |
console.log(data); | |
}) | |
} | |
myRequest(); |
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