the-owlsss's avatar @the-owlsss

can someone PLEASE give me some vanilla javascript code that will make a get request to https://api.wasteof.money/posts/64fa845c62c9b104f65962d4/ and display it as an <p> element on screen?

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lily's avatar @lily 
fetch("https://api.wasteof.money/posts/64fa845c62c9b104f65962d4/").then(r => r.json()).then(j => document.querySelector("#the_element").innerHTML = j.content).catch(e => document.querySelector("#the_element").innerHTML = `<p>error: ${e}</p>`)
the-owlsss's avatar @the-owlsss

thanks

the-owlsss's avatar @the-owlsss

hey im dumb how do i make #the_element? do i add “class=’#the_element’”?

lily's avatar @lily

no, # is for id (i.e., id="the_element). classes begin with . as opposed to #

the-owlsss's avatar @the-owlsss

oh ok i kinda forget some things after 3 months of not programming

the-owlsss's avatar @the-owlsss

TypeError: Failed to fetch

lily's avatar @lily

can you change the catch part to

.catch(e => {
  console.dir(e);
  document.querySelector("#the_element").innerHTML = `<p>error: ${e}</p>`;
});

and then tell me what’s in the console?

the-owlsss's avatar @the-owlsss

ok i will

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