loadURL

Synchronously loads content from a URL and returns a response object.

Syntax

loadURL(url, options?)

Parameters

• url

  A string containing the URL to fetch.

• options optional

  An object containing request options (currently unused).

Return value

A URLResponse object containing the response data and metadata.

URLResponse Properties

• url

  The final URL (after redirects).

• status

  The HTTP status code.

• headers

  An object containing the response headers.

• body

  A Blob containing the response body data.

URLResponse Methods

text()

Returns the response body as a string.

json()

Parses the response body as JSON and returns the resulting object.

arrayBuffer()

Returns the response body as an ArrayBuffer.

Examples

// Load a web page
let response = loadURL("https://httpbin.org/get")
let data = response.json()
data.url

"https://httpbin.org/get"

// Check status
let response = loadURL("https://example.com/api/data")
response.status

404

// Access headers
let response = loadURL("https://httpbin.org/headers")
response.headers["Content-Type"]

"application/json"

Notes

• This function performs synchronous network requests and will block execution until the request completes

See also

• fetch
• Response