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  • Søren Mastrup 122 posts 564 karma points c-trib
    Aug 22, 2014 @ 14:09
    Søren Mastrup
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    Getting JSON from an external URL

    I am trying to fetch some JSON from OpenWeatherMap, but i do not get anything returned. The URL i am trying to get JSON from is this: http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=54.941027&lon=8.848902&units=metric&APPID=myAPIkey

    But if i use another url like umbraco.com it returns the HTML for the page.

    My code looks like this:

    var url2 = ("http://www.umbraco.com");
var response = "";
var requestWeather = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url2);
    if((@requestWeather.GetResponse().ContentLength > 0)){
        var stream = new StreamReader(requestWeather.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
        response = stream.ReadToEnd();
        if(stream != null){
            stream.Close();
        }
    }

    Can any of you guys see the problem?

    Is there a smarter way of doing this? If so, how could it be done?

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  • MK 429 posts 906 karma points
    Aug 22, 2014 @ 15:48
    MK
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    Hi,

    try this:

    var url = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=54.941027&lon=8.848902&units=metric&APPID=myAPIkey"; 

    WebClient client = new WebClient();

    string reply = client.DownloadString(url);

    Regards,

    moshe

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  • MK 429 posts 906 karma points
    Aug 22, 2014 @ 15:55
    MK
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    Also, if you want to have more control on your request you can use the following:

        var url = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=54.941027&lon=8.848902&units=metric&APPID=myAPIkey";

        var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

        string res = "";

        var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();

        using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))

        {

            res = streamReader.ReadToEnd();

              }

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  • Søren Mastrup 122 posts 564 karma points c-trib
    Aug 22, 2014 @ 22:27
    Søren Mastrup
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    Thank you Moshe! Didn't think it was that simple!

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