Sample REST API Call from external site

Here is a sample REST API call using jQuery. This is for accessing the API from an external site (not your community site). It took me a long time to get the syntax right (with the help of Lithium Customer Support), so I wanted to share it here.

//Authenticate 

$.post("https://yourcommunity.com/yourcommunityid/restapi/vc/authentication/sessions/login", { "user.login": 'username', "user.password": 'password'}, function(document,err,responseData) { 

xml = responseData.responseText; 

xmlDoc = $.parseXML( xml ); 

xml = $( xmlDoc ); 

sessionKey = xml.find( "value" ).text(); 

}); 

//Get Info 

$.post('https://yourcommunity.com/yourcommunityid/restapi/vc/boards/id/force/threads/latest', { "restapi.session_key": sessionKey}, function(document,err,responseData){ 

xml = responseData.responseText; 

xmlDoc = $.parseXML( xml ), 

xml = $( xmlDoc ), 

xml.find("thread").each(function(){ 

var thread_title = $(this).find("title").text(); 

$("ul.featured_topics").append("<li>" + thread_title + "</li>") 

}); 

}); 

Note: To make rest api calls from external domains, you must ask Lithium support to add them to a safe list.