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Wikipedia API viewer
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<body> | |
<input id="startSearch" type="text"> | |
<button onClick="getEntries()">Search Wikipedia</button> | |
<div> | |
<button onClick="getRandom()">Get Random Entry</button> | |
</div> | |
<div id="showResults"> | |
</div> | |
</body> |
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function getEntries() { | |
$("#showResults").empty(); | |
var keyword = document.getElementById("startSearch").value; | |
var reorderedList = []; | |
$.getJSON('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php? action=opensearch&datatype=json&limit=5&search='+keyword+'&callback=?', | |
function(data) { | |
var j = 0; | |
while (j < data[1].length) { | |
eachItem = []; | |
for (var i=1; i<data.length; i++) { | |
eachItem.push(data[i][j]); | |
}; | |
reorderedList.push(eachItem); | |
j++; | |
}; | |
for (var i=0; i<reorderedList.length; i++) { | |
var description = reorderedList[i][1]; | |
var shortForm = description.slice(0,300); | |
var title = document.createElement("h1"); | |
var a = document.createElement("a"); | |
var t = document.createTextNode(reorderedList[i][0]); | |
a.appendChild(t); | |
a.title = reorderedList[i][0]; | |
a.href = reorderedList[i][2]; | |
title.appendChild(a); | |
var summary = document.createElement("p"); | |
var u = document.createTextNode(shortForm); | |
summary.appendChild(u); | |
$("#showResults").append($(title)).append($(summary)); | |
}; | |
}); | |
}; | |
function getRandom() { | |
$.getJSON("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=random&grnnamespace=0&prop=extracts&explaintext&exintro=&format=json&callback=?", function (data) { | |
$.each(data.query.pages, function(k, v) { | |
$.getJSON('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&pageids='+v.pageid+'&inprop=url&format=json&callback=?', function(url) { | |
$.each(url.query.pages, function(key, page) { | |
var random = document.createElement("h1"); | |
var aRandom = document.createElement("a"); | |
var randomTitle = document.createTextNode(page.title); | |
aRandom.appendChild(randomTitle); | |
aRandom.title = page.title; | |
aRandom.href = page.fullurl; | |
random.appendChild(aRandom); | |
$("#showResults").empty().append($(random)); | |
}); | |
}); | |
}); | |
}); | |
}; | |
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