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Pravin.Mache
Pravin.Mache

Reputation: 31

Wiki API unable to parse JSON

I'm trying to access Wiki api with below query:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=india&gsrnamespace=0&gsrlimit=5&origin=*&prop=extracts&exchars=200&exlimit=max&explaintext=1&exintro=1

I'm getting response, but when I'm using JSON.parse to parse response Mozilla is displaying an error:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Upvotes: 1

Views: 177

Answers (2)

user5217795
user5217795

Reputation:

Add finally format JSON string in url

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=india&gsrnamespace=0&gsrlimit=5&origin=%2A&prop=extracts&exchars=200&exlimit=max&explaintext=1&exintro=1&format=json

Upvotes: 0

Orphid
Orphid

Reputation: 2852

Try this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=india&gsrnamespace=0&gsrlimit=5&origin=*&prop=extracts&exchars=200&exlimit=max&explaintext=1&exintro=1&format=json

Add the format=json query parameter. Otherwise you're getting HTML with embedded JSON

Upvotes: 2

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