How to get data from external Api on html page

Abhinav Moudgil asked:

I have a Html page on which I want to make a call to an external API and display data being fetched from there.

For Example: I have a page test.html and there is and Api : http://testwebsite.com/api/namedisplay.

NOw this service returns the name and I want to display them on my Html page so what can I do for this.

Tags: API, WebAPI

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