JSON APIs and Ajax: Get JSON with the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest Method

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Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


<script>
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){
  document.getElementById('getMessage').onclick = function(){
    // Add your code below this line
const req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("GET", '/json.cats.json', true);
req.send();
req.onload = function() {
const json = JSON.parse(req.responseText);
document.getElementsByClassName('message')[0].innerHTML = JSON.stringify(json);
}

    // Add your code above this line
  };
});
</script>

<style>
body {
  text-align: center;
  font-family: "Helvetica", sans-serif;
}
h1 {
  font-size: 2em;
  font-weight: bold;
}
.box {
  border-radius: 5px;
  background-color: #eee;
  padding: 20px 5px;
}
button {
  color: white;
  background-color: #4791d0;
  border-radius: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #4791d0;
  padding: 5px 10px 8px 10px;
}
button:hover {
  background-color: #0F5897;
  border: 1px solid #0F5897;
}
</style>

<h1>Cat Photo Finder</h1>
<p class="message box">
The message will go here
</p>
<p>
<button id="getMessage">
  Get Message
</button>
</p>

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0.

Challenge: Get JSON with the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest Method

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Why isn’t my code passing?

I’m getting this error:
Your code should use the open method to initialize a "GET" request to the freeCodeCamp Cat Photo API.

And when I press the “Get Message” button, it says

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

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The JSON link you’re trying to open seems to have a slight formatting typo.

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Whoops, I got it. Thanks!