I'm making a weather app with React.js and I want to make a CORS request for fetching data from weather underground website. What I want is getting a city name, use autocomplete API for finding the city and fetch data for that city.
The problem is, everytime I give a city name (for example: tehran), the xhr.onerror
event handler runs and I get this error:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://autocomplete.wunderground.com/aq?query=tehran. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed access.
This is my code for fetching data:
var axios = require('axios');
function createCORSRequest(method, url) {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
if ("withCredentials" in xhr) {
xhr.open(method, url, true);
}
else if (typeof XDomainRequest != "undefined") {
xhr = new XDomainRequest();
xhr.open(method, url);
}
else {
xhr = null;
}
return xhr;
}
function makeCorsRequest(url) {
var autoCompleteText;
var xhr = createCORSRequest('GET', url);
if (!xhr) {
alert('CORS not supported');
return;
}
xhr.onload = function() {
var text = xhr.responseText;
autoCompleteText = text;
}
xhr.onerror = function() {
alert('Woops, there was an error making the request.');
}
xhr.send();
return autoCompleteText;
}
const WEATHER_UNDERGROUND_AUTOCOMPLETE = 'http://autocomplete.wunderground.com/aq?query=';
const WEATHER_UNDERGROUND_URL = 'http://api.wunderground.com/api/eda52d06d32d71e9/conditions/q/';
module.exports = {
getTemp: function(city) {
var encodedCity = encodeURIComponent(city);
var requestAutoComplete = `${WEATHER_UNDERGROUND_AUTOCOMPLETE}${encodedCity}`;
var autoCompleteText = makeCorsRequest(requestAutoComplete);
var foundCity = autoCompleteText.RESULTS[0].name.split(', ');
var requestUrl = `${WEATHER_UNDERGROUND_URL}${foundCity[1]}/${foundcity[0]}.json`;
return axios.get(requestUrl).then(function(res) {
return res.data.current_observation.temp_c;
}, function(err) {
throw new Error(res.data.error);
});
}
}
Screenshot of the app: localhost:3000/weather page