Question Online APIs (JSON)

Hey, I've been searching around now for a couple of good hours, and I can't seem to find anywhere to learn how to use Online APIs.

What do I mean by this?
Let me just tell you what I want this for--
For my plugin I would want to access Mojang's online API: http://wiki.vg/Mojang_API and use JSON information gathered from there in my plugin.

For example
Player types '/whoreallyis PvPdog', I would then return a message using information gathered:
"PvPdog's UUID is: StringUUID - Gathered from: https://api.mojang.com/users/profiles/minecraft/pvpdog?at=0"
or
"PvPdog's UserID is:
c80447557a0c4e77b8eae1b2802a0ea0 - Gathered from: https://sessionserver.mojang.com/session/minecraft/profile/c80447557a0c4e77b8eae1b2802a0ea0 UUID"

If you still don't understand, please let me know!

 

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BUMP

 

Just request it using a HTTP GET request.

 

Thank you for that, @Lolmewn , ok, let's say I have requested it, now how to I gather the information, let's say put it in a String from JSON?

Ex:

String s = gatheredJSONInfo_ID;

 

@DoggyCode™ You're going to have to look up the JSON documentation for that.

 

Alright...

To anyone else: if you have any useful information, throw it at me. I tried looking for JSON examples as well, I found some, but none of them included getting the JSON information from HTTP clients (websites)

 

@DoggyCode™ Psst: This is also included in the Updater lib, which can be found on these forums under libraries.

 

Just retrieve the String from the site and then parse it into a JSONObject. It's part of json-simple and it is already packaged in with the Bukkit API