Will this API work with just vanilla JavaScript (client-side requests)?

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• TaisFukushima Member, Administrator, Moderator admin

  October 24 Accepted Answer

  Hello @avilches_terriza578

  We accept requests from javascript code. But, we don’t accept CORS requests from javascript clients. They can use javascript to build an app and use our API, whereas, they can not use CORS request. My colleagues from the technical team verified this code in javascript and they ran it with nodejs, it worked for them (find the example below)

  var XMLHttpRequest = require("xmlhttprequest").XMLHttpRequest;
  var data = null;

  var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

  // withCredentials indicates whether or not cross-site Access-Control requests should be made using credentials.
  xhr.withCredentials = true;

  xhr.addEventListener("readystatechange", function () {
  if (this.readyState === 4) {
  console.log(this.responseText);
  }
  });

  xhr.open("GET", "https://od-api.oxforddictionaries.com/api/v2/entries/en-gb/computer");
  xhr.setRequestHeader("app_id", "XXXXXXXX");
  xhr.setRequestHeader("app_key", "XXXXXXX);

  xhr.send(data);

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