# Guide: Get JSON with the jQuery getJSON Method

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**Created:** [July 7, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/guide-get-json-with-the-jquery-getjson-method/18189 "2016-07-07T20:21:38Z")\
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Application Programming Interfaces - are tools that computers use to communicate with one another.

Most web APIs transfer data in a format called JSON. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is nothing more than object properties and their current values, sandwiched between a `{` and a `}`.

These properties and their values are often referred to as “key-value pairs”.

Here is a sample of what it looks like.

```javascript
$.getJSON("/json/cats.json", function(json) {

   $(".message").html(JSON.stringify(json));

 });

```

$.getjson() Load JSON-encoded data from the server using a GET HTTP request.

A common use of JSON is to exchange data to/from a web server.  
When sending data to a web server, the data has to be a string.  
Convert a JavaScript object into a string with JSON.stringify().

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in url parameter, how can we know that link will send back json data. For example if I want to create another JSON object like books.json just for test, how can I create an url like /json/books.json to send back the this json data?

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**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/guide-get-json-with-the-jquery-getjson-method/18189/3 "2017-08-06T23:45:19Z")

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