cannot loop through json Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL - json

Question

I cant manage to loop through my json that i have setup at this url i just keep getting the following error Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
here is my json http://example.com/api/?email=info#example.co.uk&format=json
i am trying to pull it in from the following code.
//json
var json_feed = 'http://example.com/api/?email=info#example.co.uk&format=json&callback=?';
$.getJSON(json_feed, function(json) {
console.log(json);
});​
Where am i going wrong can someone advise.
Manage to get it to work with the following..
php
header('content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
echo json_encode($buckets);
jquery
$.ajax({
url: 'http://example.com/api/?email=info#example.co.uk&format=json',
success: function(data) {
console.log(data);
}
});

Answer 1

The url you have shown doesn't returns JSON but not JSONP. Due to the same origin policy restriction you cannot send cross domain AJAX calls unless the server supports JSONP. You have added the callback=? parameter to the url which is OK from the client side perspective as jQuery will send it, but the server seems to completely ignore it and it returns JSON instead of wrapping this JSON into the callback passed as parameter (which is JSONP).
You should probably contact the authors of the site you are trying to access or read the documentation of the API they are exposing (if any) to see if it supports JSONP.