No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource error

Question

I'm trying to fetch the feed of a news website. Thought I'd use google's feed API to convert the feedburner feed into json. The following url will return 10 posts from the feed, in json format. http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=10&q=http://feeds.feedburner.com/mathrubhumi

I used the following code to get the contents of above url

$.ajax({
  type: "GET",
  dataType: "jsonp",
  url: "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load",
  data: {
    "v": "1.0",
    "num": "10",
    "q": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/mathrubhumi"
  },
  success: function(result) {
    //.....
  }
});

but it's not working and I'm getting the following error

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=10&q=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Fmathrubhumi. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost' is therefore not allowed access.

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

If you use Google Chrome browser you can hack with an extension.

You can find a Chrome extension that will modify CORS headers on the fly in your application. Obviously, this is Chrome only, but I like that it works with zero changes anywhere at all.

You can use it for debugging your app on a local machine (if everything works in production).

Notice: If URL becomes broken the extension name is Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *. I recommend you to disable this extension when you not working on your stuff, because, for example, youtube does not work with this extension.