jQuery Ajax response 200, but cannot access the response data

Question

I'm doing a simple jquery ajax call to the url as seen below. The response is OK 200 and I'm trying to console.log the responseText, but I'm getting nothing. What am I doing wrong?

And how would I do this in pure javascript without jQuery?

$.ajax({
    url:'https://poloniex.com/private.php?currencyPair=BTC_LTC&rate=0.016&amount=1&command=buy', 
   dataType:'json',
   success: function(data, textStatus, xhr){
console.log('asdfasdfadsf');     
console.log(data);
     console.log('hello' + textStatus);
     console.log(xhr.responseText);

   }//success

}); //ajax

how I view it: create ajax.html + paste the responseText there - 9/10 it'll show an error — treyBake, Jul 27 '17 at 15:52
Possible duplicate of [how do I get the reponse text from ajax / jquery?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5366900/how-do-i-get-the-reponse-text-from-ajax-jquery) — Namaskar, Jul 27 '17 at 15:53
yeah no not a dupe of that. it's a dupe of how do i do error handling — Kevin B, Jul 27 '17 at 15:54
For having 2000+ rep, you sure ask a question terribly .. No editable code .. Just an image? ... Odd if you ask me. — Zak, Jul 27 '17 at 15:57
i wanted to give an idea of what the output was in the console. which is why i took a snapshot. this is why stack overflow is going down hill due to the amount of trolling newbies get posting something they aren't familiar with. everyone started somewhere, even you. — Patoshi パトシ, Jul 27 '17 at 17:17
Why edit the question with the answer? Seeing the accepted answer tell you to change `dataType` to html, and it already is in your code, doesn't make sense. — Namaskar, Jul 28 '17 at 12:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '17 at 15:56

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Because you are parsing the response as a json string, and ajax redirect you to an "error" callback. Change dataType to html, or change the reply of your script.

answered Jul 27 '17 at 15:56

Ryosaku

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Thanks for solving my problem. I can see why stackoverflow is going down hill due to the the amount of egotistical trolls on here that just scare off any newbies posting. I had an incorrect value set to "json", when it should be html. – Patoshi パトシ Jul 27 '17 at 17:14

jQuery Ajax response 200, but cannot access the response data

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