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The JS file for my Shortcutpedia Freecodecamp challenge of the Wikipedia API
$(document).ready(() => {
$("#random").click(() => {
return window.open("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random");
});
let endpoint =
"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&generator=search&gsrnamespace=0&gsrlimit=10&prop=pageimages|extracts&pilimit=max&exintro&explaintext&exsentences=1&exlimit=max&gsrsearch=";
function thisWholeThing() {
$("#search").keypress(e => {
let searchTerm = $("#search").val();
let key = e.which;
if (key === 13) {
$("#results").empty();
makeRequest();
}
function makeRequest() {
// Using jQuery
$.ajax({
url: endpoint + searchTerm,
dataType: "jsonp", // we're using JSONP to avoid CORS issues as said by Wikipedia API Docs
type: "GET",
headers: {
"Api-User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"
},
success: data => {
if (data.query === undefined) {
$("#results").append(
`<div class="list-group">
<div class="list-group-item list-group-item-action flex-column align-items-start">
<div class="d-flex w-100 justify-content-between">
<h5 class="mb-1">Suggestions:</h5>
</div>
<li class="mb-1">Make sure all words are spelled correctly.</li>
<li class="mb-1">Try different keywords.</li>
<li class="mb-1">Try more general keywords.</li>
</div>
</div>`
);
} else {
let articles = data.query.pages;
for (let value of Object.values(articles)) {
$("#results")
.append(`<a href="#" onclick="window.open('https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=${
value.pageid
}')" class="list-group-item list-group-item-action flex-column align-items-start">\
<div class = "d-flex w-100 justify-content-between">\
<h5 class = "mb-1">${value.title}</h5>\
</div>\
<p class="mb-1">${value.extract}</p>\
</a>`);
}
}
},
error: errorMsg => {
$("#results").append(
`<li class="list-group-item list-group-item-danger">Oh no something went wrong...This is a ${
errorMsg.status
} error, but we'll fix it</li>`
);
}
});
}
});
}
thisWholeThing();
});
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