How to make a JSON call to an URL?

A standard http GET request should do it. Then you can use JSON.parse() to make it into a json object.

function Get(yourUrl){
    var Httpreq = new XMLHttpRequest(); // a new request
    Httpreq.open("GET",yourUrl,false);
    Httpreq.send(null);
    return Httpreq.responseText;          
}

then

var json_obj = JSON.parse(Get(yourUrl));
console.log("this is the author name: "+json_obj.author_name);

that’s basically it

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