Json - Obter dados de uma url e montar divs

Gente, estou montando várias divs dinamicamente porém estou passando o json em um varável. gostaria de saber como fária para montar as divs através uma url?
a url do meu json é essa… >> https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/

o meu código é esse.

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$(document).ready(function(){ var data = [ {"id":"1","employee_name":"Tiger Nixon","employee_salary":"320800","employee_age":"61","profile_image":"default_profile.png"},{"id":"2","employee_name":"Garrett Winters","employee_salary":"434343","employee_age":"63","profile_image":"default_profile.png"},{"id":"3","employee_name":"Ashton Cox","employee_salary":"86000","employee_age":"66","profile_image":"default_profile.png"},{"id":"4","employee_name":"Cedric Kelly","employee_salary":"433060","employee_age":"22","profile_image":"default_profile.png"},{"id":"5","employee_name":"Airi Satou","employee_salary":"162700","employee_age":"33","profile_image":"default_profile.png"},{"id":"6","employee_name":"Brielle Williamson","employee_salary":"372000","employee_age":"61","profile_image":"default_profile.png"},{"id":"7","employee_name":"Herrod Chandler","employee_salary":"137500","employee_age":"59","profile_image":"default_profile.png"},{"id":"8","employee_name":"Rhona Davidson","employee_salary":"327900","employee_age":"55","profile_image":"default_profile.png"},{"id":"9","employee_name":"Colleen Hurst","employee_salary":"205500","employee_age":"39","profile_image":"default_profile.png"},{"id":"10","employee_name":"Sonya Frost","employee_salary":"103600","employee_age":"23","profile_image":"default_profile.png"}];

$(’#txt-search’).keyup(function(){
var searchField = $(this).val();
if(searchField === ‘’) {
$(’#filter-records’).html(’’);
return;
}

        var regex = new RegExp(searchField, "i");
        var output = '<div class="row">';
        var count = 1;
		  $.each(data, function(key, val){
      
			if ((val.employee_salary.search(regex) != -1) || (val.employee_name.search(regex) != -1)) {

			  output += '<div class="col-md-12 well" style="margin-top:-10px;">';
			  output += '<div ><img class="img-responsive" style="float:left;" src="'+val.profile_image+'" alt="'+ val.employee_name +'" /></div>';
			  output += '<div class="col-md-7">';
			  output += '<h5>' + val.employee_name + '</h5>';
			  output += '<p>' + val.employee_salary + '</p>'
			  output += '</div>';
			  output += '</div>';
			  if(count%2 == 0){
				output += '</div><div class="row">'
			  }
			  count++;
     
			}
		  });
		  output += '</div>';
		  $('#filter-records').html(output);
    });

});

Primeiro passo é fazer uma request ajax:

https://api.jquery.com/jquery.getjson/