JQuery Batchbook Rest API Consumption

Question

Given the following API call in Curl, how would I do this in JQuery?

curl -u #{api_key}:x -X GET https://#{your_account}.batchbook.com/service/people.xml

Answer 1

You don't want to do that with jQuery, because it'll expose your API key to your users.

If you really really really decided to use a jQuery AJAX call, though (maybe some sort of internal system where everyone with access would have access to the key), here's the code:

$.ajax({
  url: 'https://your-account.batchbook.com/service/people.xml',
  username: 'your api key',
  password: 'your password'
});