Calling an external JSON API with Ghost

Developer help
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Hi, I have not yet installed Ghost and plan on using the Ghost(Pro) plan, if I move forward with Ghost. (Though if needed, I can self host.) Currently I’m evaluating if I can use it as a platform.

The Membership feature is really what I’m excited about. However, while SOME of my content will be blog posts, other content I want to pull in from a JSON API. Specifically, a variety of data from the New York legislature.

I have three questions:

  1. Can I use the HTML editor to also include JavaScript to make JSON API calls so I can display this content?

  2. If not, I’ve read that Ghost can be used as a back-end only. If I do that, do I lose the benefits of the membership features?

  3. Is there some sort of hybrid option, where I use Ghost as a front-end for most stuff but also have certain pages that can fetch content from a different API, but behind the membership wall?

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Hey where you able to figure out how to do this?

3

On (1), no. Instead I created a div with an ID and then used a script in the footer to insert text.
On (2) or (3), didn’t find a solution.

4

Sorry for disturbing you bust just to be clear you had to manually put in the text you wanted to use?

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No, I still called via json that was in the footer code injection for the page. But for the page CONTENT, I inserted some HTML that was just a DIV with an ID assigned to it. And so the code injection was responsible for inserting the JSON text into the div.