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Fetch JSON

Send a GET request and read in JSON from the response. Use to fetch external data.
/**
* Example someHost is set up to take in a JSON request
* Replace url with the host you wish to send requests to
* @param {string} someHost the host to send the request to
* @param {string} url the URL to send the request to
*/
const someHost = 'https://examples.cloudflareworkers.com/demos';
const url = someHost + '/static/json';
/**
* gatherResponse awaits and returns a response body as a string.
* Use await gatherResponse(..) in an async function to get the response body
* @param {Response} response
*/
async function gatherResponse(response) {
const { headers } = response;
const contentType = headers.get('content-type') || '';
if (contentType.includes('application/json')) {
return JSON.stringify(await response.json());
} else if (contentType.includes('application/text')) {
return response.text();
} else if (contentType.includes('text/html')) {
return response.text();
} else {
return response.text();
}
}
async function handleRequest() {
const init = {
headers: {
'content-type': 'application/json;charset=UTF-8',
},
};
const response = await fetch(url, init);
const results = await gatherResponse(response);
return new Response(results, init);
}
addEventListener('fetch', event => {
return event.respondWith(handleRequest());
});