Receiving information from outside of microstudio

When I first attempted doing this I tried using the fetch() method in JavaScript, but it seemed to not work and now I'm stumped.

My question is: is it possible to receive data from other websites?

solved.

answer: fetch("https://api.ipify.org/").then(async response => print(await response.text()));

How did you use the Fetch API? It should work if the site's CORS policy allows cross-origin requests.

I keep getting thrown an error 404 even though the website is valid and the CORS policy allows cross origin requests....

fetch("en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori")
  .then(response => {
    if (!response.ok) {
      print(`http Er! -- status: ${response.status}`);
    }
    return response.json(); 
  })
  .then(data => {
    print(data); 
  })
  .catch(error => {
    print('Er! -- ' + error); 
});

The reason why it doesn't work is because you miss "https://" in front of your address. Otherwise it will not work.

AFAIK however, it seems that either microstudio or wikipedia are blocking CORS.

When I first tried using 'fetch()' I did include the 'https://' in the url and it still seemed to throw errors. It's working now though.

Thanks :-)

edit - I take it back, no website seems to be able to fetch information? Even ones that I verified to allow cross origin requests. Are there any other methods of fetching information/data from websites? preferably in JavaScript but other languages are fine.

For me, something like this works fine in JavaScript:

fetch("https://api.ipify.org/").then(async response => print(await response.text()));

Maybe your issue is because you're using json() on an HTML response?

turns out every website I tried were blocking CORS.

and you're right, I should have been using a text response for the type of data I was trying to fetch.

• thank you again :-)