The FCC recently made available a small set of API calls to access FCC data. In particular, I'm interested in the Consumer Broadband Test API. I'm trying to access this API through jQuery but am failing. Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong with my code or if this seems to be a problem with FCC's API.
If you visit this API request in a browser, it returns a XML response just fine: http://data.fcc.gov/api/speedtest/find?latitude=30.240236062827297&longitude=-97.64787337499999
So I've tried to load this data in jQuery using various methods:
var url = "http://data.fcc.gov/api/speedtest/find?latitude=30.240236062827297&longitude=-97.64787337499999";
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: url,
success: function(data) {
console.log("ajax: " + data);
}
});
$.getJSON(url, function(data) {
console.log("getJSON: " + data);
});
$.get(url, function(data) {
console.log("get: " + data);
});
In the Firebug console, all three requests show a 200 (OK) status, but the response body is empty. Also, the resulting console.log
messages are:
ajax:
getJSON: null
get:
Am I doing something wrong here?