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garson
garson

Reputation: 1617

How to request curid or pageid when searching by Wikipedia API?

I am trying to search for a given term on the Wikipedia API and am able to retrieve a list of titles and snippets, but I want the JSON to also include the Wikipedia "curid" or "pageid" so I can use that for links.

Here is the (unhelpful) documentation as far as I can tell, and here is what I have so far:

var jsonresult=null;
    $.ajax({
        dataType: "jsonp",
        url: "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=search&utf8=1&srsearch=Einstein&callback=?", 
        success: function(result){
        console.log(result);
        jsonresult = result;
        printAjax(result);
        },
        error: function(error){
            console.log("oh no");
        }
    });
}

I don't know how to change the API request URL.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1872

Answers (2)

holding_the_center_down
holding_the_center_down

Reputation: 121

Alternatively, you could use the url query in the ajax request and append the percent encoded title from the returned object encodeURI(data["query"]["search"][index]["title"]) to "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" and use that for your page links.

Upvotes: 0

Termininja
Termininja

Reputation: 7036

To get "pageid" try query with generator instead list, and use extracts property for text snippet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&utf8=1&gsrsearch=Einstein&prop=extracts&exintro=1&exlimit=20&exchars=200

Upvotes: 3

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