API call over AJAX

Question

I'm new to AJAX and I want to generate a password over this API. I want to use AJAX but dont know exactly how and where to specify the parameters.

$.ajax({
    url: 'https://passwordwolf.com/?length=10&upper=off&lower=off&special=off&exclude=012345&repeat=5',
    dataType: "text json",
    type: "POST",
    data: {upper: off, lower: on, special: off},
    success: function(jsonObject,status) {

        console.log("function() ajaxPost : " + status);

    }
});

Many Thanks, Pls don't hate my programming skills!

Answer 1

Having a look at their API:

• You should use the GET method, not POST .
• The url should be https://passwordwolf.com/api/ (notice the /api at the end).
• Besides, passwordwolf doesn't accept CORS, so you should probably call that service from your server side and mirror it to your frontend with the appropriate CORS headers .

See demo below (it uses cors-anywhere to circunvent the CORS problem).

It also shows how to correctly use an object to set params .

 var CORS = 'https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/'; $.ajax({ url: CORS + 'https://passwordwolf.com/api/', dataType: "json", type: "GET", data: { length: 10, upper: "off", lower: "off", special: "off", exclude: "012345", repeat: 5 }, success: function(jsonObject, status) { console.log("ajax result: " + JSON.stringify(jsonObject)); } }); 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>