# About GlideApps Fetch JSON

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**Created:** [November 21, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/about-glideapps-fetch-json/54625 "2022-11-21T14:28:01Z")\
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That API is being called from a site (Glide) that is not the source site (Eagle), which violates the CORS policy for that Eagle site.

> **[Cross-origin resource sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing)**
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> Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a mechanism to safely bypass the same-origin policy, that is, it allows a web page to access restricted resources from a server on a domain different than the domain that served the web page.
> A web page may freely embed cross-origin images, stylesheets, scripts, iframes, and videos. Certain "cross-domain" requests, notably Ajax requests, are forbidden by default by the same-origin security policy. CORS defines a way in which a browser and server can intera...

You can try using a proxy to retrieve the JSON in this case.

> [@Fetching metadata using Fetch JSON](https://community.glideapps.com/t/fetching-metadata-using-fetch-json/53469):
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> Hello community! I would like to retrieve data from a URL with metadata using Fetch JSON. Would like to know if anyone know what code to use for retrieving it? heres the metadata url: [https://pub-cd02cb317b314644935dbaea4d3e658d.r2.dev/5060](https://pub-cd02cb317b314644935dbaea4d3e658d.r2.dev/5060)

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