How to Get Public Holiday Information (100+ Countries) using JavaScript

If you’re adding basic date & time services to your app, you might benefit from this one: Our Public Holiday API quickly provides public holiday records in more than 100 countries, including specific data about when the holiday occurs, whether it’s a nationwide holiday, what the local name for the holiday is (all information is provided in English by default), and more. It requires the raw country & year as input in order to access the appropriate records.

You can easily take advantage of this API with a free Cloudmersive account & API key by structuring your API call with the JavaScript code examples provided below.

To structure your call using the XHR feature in JavaScript, use the following snippet:

var data = JSON.stringify({
     "RawCountryInput": "<string>",
     "Year": "<integer>"
});
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.withCredentials = true;
xhr.addEventListener("readystatechange", function() {
     if(this.readyState === 4) {
          console.log(this.responseText);
     }
});
xhr.open("POST", "https://api.cloudmersive.com/validate/date-time/get/holidays");
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
xhr.setRequestHeader("Apikey", "YOUR-API-KEY-HERE");
xhr.send(data);

To install jQuery instead, run the below command:

bower install jquery

And then call the API:

var settings = {
     "url": "https://api.cloudmersive.com/validate/date-time/get/holidays",
     "method": "POST",
     "timeout": 0,
     "headers": {
          "Content-Type": "application/json",
          "Apikey": "YOUR-API-KEY-HERE"
     },
     "data": JSON.stringify({
          "RawCountryInput": "<string>",
          "Year": "<integer>"
     }),
};
$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
     console.log(response);
});

All done — no further code contributions required!