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javascriptwikipedia-api
Mona Coder
Mona Coder

Reputation: 6316

How to get a single paragraph from the Wikipedia API

How can I generate a URL request like this?

var CityURL = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=boston&format=json&formatversion=2&exintro=1&callback=?';

to Group C of a wiki like this in API

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_AFC_Champions_League_group_stage#Group_C

I already tried this

    var games= 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=2018_AFC_Champions_League_group_stage#Group_C&format=json&formatversion=2&exintro=1&callback=?';

but not getting anything.

This is returning the first paragraph of page

    var games= 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=2018_AFC_Champions_League_group_stage&format=json&formatversion=2&exintro=1&callback=?';

but as I said I just need the #Group_C and the complete URL not returning anything.

  $(document).ready(function(){
        var games= 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=2018_AFC_Champions_League_group_stage#Group_C&format=json&formatversion=2&exintro=1&callback=?';

        $.getJSON(games,function(data) {
            $.each(data.query.pages, function(i, item) {
                       $('div#details2').html(item.extract);
            });
        });
    });

Upvotes: 2

Views: 923

Answers (1)

Eric
Eric

Reputation: 81

You can use action=parse to get the HTML of a specific section.

First you have to find out the sectionindex by calling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=sections&page=2018_AFC_Champions_League_group_stage&format=json&formatversion=2&callback=?

In this case the index for "Group_C" is 8.

The following URL returns the text for your desired section. Just replace parameter section with the index number obtained by the previous request.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=text&page=2018_AFC_Champions_League_group_stage&section=8&format=json&formatversion=2&callback=?

Upvotes: 3

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