Getting Data from an API with Javascript

Getting data from an API is a great way to add useful data to a webpage. All we have to do is make a request to the API and process the response to add the content to our webpage. In this short tutorial we will take a look at how we can use Javascript to make an API request and display the response.

Learn to use Javasript to get data from an API to display on a webpage. Image by catalyststuff on Freepik

If you are not sure what an API is you can read this short article:

What is an API? - Explanation + 2 Examples

Introducing my example webpage

In a previous post I used Python FastAPI to create an API. Although you can use Javascript to make requests to any API, we will use the API from that post as an example.

Make an API with Python FastAPI

The API can be sent a movie title and it will respond with a random quote from that movie.

So the webpage that I made has an input field where the user can enter a movie…