Using an API cross domain to get XML

Question

I'm trying to get data from cdn.animenewsnetwork.com and information pertaining to the API is here . How would I access this using jQuery?

When I'm in the chrome console on the domain, it is as simple as the following:

$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "http://cdn.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/api.xml?title=~jin",
    dataType: 'xml',
    success: function(responseXML){
        console.log(responseXML);
    },
       error:function(results){
        console.log(results);
    }
});

I know the trick using dataType: 'jsonp' , but that doesn't work with this xml. How would I get past this?

Answer 1

In short unless the API supports CORS or JSONP, you will have to proxy the content through a server you control. The API docs don't mention JSONP or CORS support, so, most likely, this is not supported.