javascriptreactjscallbackitunes-search-api

How to provide callback function to iTunes search API


I am struggling to find a way to provide a callback function to correctly use the iTunes Store search API.

I am trying to achieve this behaviour:

const getiTunes = fetch(`https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=${search}&media=movie&limit=200`)
  .then(results => results.json())
  .then(results => {
    if (results.errorMessage) throw Error(results.errorMessage)
    else setResults(results)
  })
  .catch(error => {
    //handle error
  })

and so far I have this:

const getiTunes = results =>  {
  if (results.errorMessage) throw Error(results.errorMessage)
  else setITunes(results)
}

const script = document.createElement("script")
script.src = `https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=${search}&media=movie&limit=200&callback=getiTunes`
script.async = true
document.body.appendChild(script)

I keep getting the following error:

Uncaught ReferenceError: getiTunes is not defined

I have also tried &callback="getiTunes" and &callback=${getiTunes} and they also fail.

These functions are being called in an useEffect hook in React. Is there a specific way I have to retrieve the function name?


Aside

And if I try to not provide a callback function, it will work only if the search is a new search (ie I haven't searched that term before). However, if I have (say on production URL or locally) then it will error with the following:

Access to fetch at 'https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=spiderman&media=movie&limit=200' from origin 'http://localhost:3000' has been blocked by CORS policy: The 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header has a value "--it has the last URL I used to search for this successfully--"...

Solution

  • I was able to get this working by adding my script to handle the response to the document also.

    const loadItunes = document.createElement("script")
    loadItunes.src = `https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=${search}&media=movie&limit=200&callback=getiTunes`
    loadItunes.async = true
    
    const handleResults = document.createElement("script")
    
    handleResults.type = "text/javascript"
    handleResults.text = "function getiTunes(response) { //function code };"
    
    document.body.appendChild(loadItunes)
    document.body.appendChild(handleResults)
    

    Updated Answer

    I have found a better solution via this code sandbox. It perfectly solves this problem by creating a function which then hands off the response to a callback function.

    export const fetchJSONP = (url, callback) => {
      var callbackName = "jsonp_callback_" + Math.round(100000 * Math.random())
      window[callbackName] = function (data) {
        delete window[callbackName]
        document.body.removeChild(script)
        callback(data)
      }
    
      var script = document.createElement("script")
      script.src = url + (url.indexOf("?") >= 0 ? "&" : "?") + "callback=" + callbackName
      document.body.appendChild(script)
    }
    

    I then use it in the following way:

    const handleResponse = response => {
      //do stuff with response
    }
    fetchJSONP("https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=spiderman&media=movie&limit=200", handleResponse)