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call Wikipedia API using jQuery and parse result
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<div id="insertTest"></div> | |
<script> | |
var wikipediaHTMLResult = function(data) { | |
var readData = $('<div>' + data.parse.text.* + '</div>'); | |
// handle redirects | |
var redirect = readData.find('li:contains("REDIRECT") a').text(); | |
if(redirect != '') { | |
callWikipediaAPI(redirect); | |
return; | |
} | |
var box = readData.find('.infobox'); | |
var binomialName = box.find('.binomial').text(); | |
var fishName = box.find('th').first().text(); | |
var imageURL = null; | |
// Check if page has images | |
if(data.parse.images.length >= 1) { | |
imageURL = box.find('img').first().attr('src'); | |
} | |
$('#insertTest').append('<div><img src="'+ imageURL + '"/>'+ fishName +' <i>('+ binomialName +')</i></div>'); | |
}; | |
function callWikipediaAPI(wikipediaPage) { | |
// http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext#parse | |
$.getJSON('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&callback=?', {page:wikipediaPage, prop:'text|images', uselang:'en'}, wikipediaHTMLResult); | |
} | |
callWikipediaAPI('Aholehole'); | |
</script> |
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$.getJSON("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&callback=?", {page:pageName, prop:"text"}, wikipediaHTMLResult); |
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$.getJSON("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&callback=?", {titles:pageName, prop: "images"}, wikipediaImageResult); |
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$.getJSON("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&callback=?", {titles:pageName, prop: "revisions", rvprop:"content"}, wikipediaPageResult); |
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Have you had any luck getting this to work in Safari? I've not. It gives me:
'''ReferenceError: Can't find variable: jQuery110209405261517968029_1390676300501'''
Interestingly, if I use the web inspector to follow through to wikipedia's api.php, I can see the object trying to come back:
screenshot: https://db.tt/NiTZSg9x