Comments on: Getting Data From the Wikipedia API Using jQuery

By: Eldon

Eldon — Thu, 03 May 2018 21:53:20 +0000

after the is suppose to div class article, but I put in in tags so it was removed.

By: Eldon

Eldon — Thu, 03 May 2018 21:52:17 +0000

Great tut, thanks for this. I have a request regarding the format this is calling. text§ion=30 make sit easy to target specific sections within the wiki page, however, when we get to sections where information is presented in a table, the is blank. My question, is how we would revise this code so that a table section could be displayed? Thank you.

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 20:11:50 +0000

Hi Thank you for the post. Links are working. This is the idea:

//working links
blurb.find('a').each(function() {
var wikiAttr = $(this).attr('href');
var hash = "#";
var www ="www";
if(wikiAttr.indexOf(hash) === -1 && wikiAttr.indexOf(www) === -1){
$(this).attr('href', 'https://de.wikipedia.org' + wikiAttr).attr('title', 'https://de.wikipedia.org' + wikiAttr).attr('target', '_blank').addClass('myWikiLink');
}
if($(this).hasClass('external')){
$(this).attr('title', wikiAttr).attr('target', '_blank');
}
});

regards theo p.s.:you may have to alter css and inspect the wiki dom

By: py

py — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:07:01 +0000

Merci Ian !
Lost in the ‘Random Quote Machine’ challenge of freecodecamp.org, your library saved me another day of errand.
With some modifications I have been able to produce an array filled with the gorgeous poetry of Guillevic (you may read those marvelous lines on this page (in french, sorry)) :
https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carnac
Thanks, thanks a lot !
py

By: anfelo

anfelo — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 23:46:24 +0000

Hi Ian, thanks alot! This help me to get started with javaScript ajax requests and MediaWiki. I also wanted to get a json object containing a list of articles that matched my entry, I found this helpful link:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25891076/wikipedia-api-fulltext-search-to-return-articles-with-title-snippet-and-image/25911756#25911756?newreg=8e78222a30d6428c901acb10baf70667

By: iCricket

iCricket — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 02:37:53 +0000

Just remove §ion=0 from the url.

@Ian thanks alot mate! your “markup” variable has saved life.
was struggle to cast the content because of this “*”.

anyway how about this? I’ve a prob to catch the content because “number”

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exintro=&explaintext=&titles=Nest

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:38:30 +0000

Hi there Rosa — As far as I am aware, you would probably have to loop through the sections via multiple requests.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 04:27:28 +0000

How can i display all sections?

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 01:22:47 +0000

As things are implemented right now in the callback after the data loads you would have to replace all the links in the container that the Wikipedia data is loaded into with a link to a second page or page that ran the plugin on load off of some parameters or something.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 21:49:16 +0000

great work! I appreciate it. Is there anyway to get this to work with the links working inside of the blurb to where it opens the next page in “blurb” format as well? Thanks!