Pinterest API - pure json response?

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So I made a simple HTTP request to Pinterest's API to get the count of a link: ``` $this->load->library('rest'); $this->rest->initialize(array('server' => 'http://api.pinterest.com/')); $return_data = $this->rest->get('v1/urls/count.json?callback=&url=' . $link); ``` The response I get is: ``` receiveCount({"count": 5743, "url": "http://google.com"}) ``` You can try this yourself here. I don't want the callback and I tried setting `callback=` but the parenthesis are still present so I can't parse it via `json_decode`. Is there a better way of getting a pure json response without having to string replace the parenthesis myself?

Accepted Answer

The Pintrest API is currently in development and is not ready for public use; they removed their own documentation a while ago. There is however a cache on Bolt for v2 of the API.

For now I would just do a regex on the response such as

```
$return_data = preg_replace('/^receiveCount$(.*)$$/', "\1", $return_data);
```

And then `json_decode` that.

Pinterest API - pure json response?

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