I'm trying to write the code in which one enter a word, click the button (I'll add the code later for submitting by pressing "return" button), and you get 10 results related to the word you enter. Each result will have a title/url and a description (basically, the first sentence in the page, I think?). I tried to use API Sandbox to figure out what I need but the results I got wasn't what I was looking for. I also still don't get the difference between list=search
and generator=search
since they both return the results. However, it seems that I got more success when I use list=search
when I call the title in json as data.search[i].title and description(?) as data.search[i].snippet. However, I'm unable to call the info when I use generator=search
. The documentation for MediaWiki API was way too confusing... Basically, I wanted to call the extract of the info which seems to only happen if I use generator=search
. However, I got an error when I tried to call the title as data.pages[i].title
and description as data.pages[i].extract
.
Here's my code:
$(document).ready(function() {
function getWord() {
var keyword = $("#searchkeyword").val();
$.ajax({
url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?",
type: 'GET',
dataType: "jsonp",
data: {
action: 'query',
format: 'json',
prop: 'extracts',
list: 'search',
srsearch: keyword,
exsentences: '1',
exlimit: '10',
exintro: '1',
explaintext: '1'
},
success: function(data) {
console.log(data);
$("#articlearea").empty();
for(var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
$("#articlearea").append('<div class="articlebox">' + data.query.search[i].title + '<br>' + data.query.search[i].extract + '</div>');
}
}
});
};
$("#submitbtn").on("click", getWord);
});
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Amiko:400,600');
body {
position: relative;
font-family: 'Amiko', sans-serif;
}
html, body{
height:100%;
margin: 0;
background-color: #40e0d0;
}
.wrapper {
text-align: center;
position: relative;
}
.container {
width: 75%;
margin: 30px auto 0;
}
.container a {
color: #ffffff;
font-size: 1.1em;
text-decoration: none;
margin-bottom: 10px;
display: block;
}
input {
border: 1px solid #ffffff;
border-radius: 4px;
padding: 5px 8px;
font-size: 1.3em;
}
#submitbtn {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
left: -32px;
top: -2px;
color: #7B7B7B;
cursor:pointer;
width: 0;
}
.fa-search {
font-size: 1.3em;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="container">
<a id="randomlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random" target="_blank">Click here for a random Wikipedia article</a>
<form>
<input id="searchkeyword" type="text" placeholder="Search Wikipedia" />
<i id="submitbtn" class="fa fa-search"></i>
</form>
<div id="articlearea"></div>
</div>
</div>
Actually, what I was asking was to access the data from generator=search
. I forgot that I need to go inside two times for that compared to one time for list=search
.
All I need to do is to add this code to my javascript area:
var pages = data.query.pages;
for(var page in pages) {
$("#articlearea").append('<div class="articlebox"><a target="_blank" href="' + pages[page].fullurl + '"><div class="articlelink"><h2>' + pages[page].title + '</h2>' + pages[page].extract + '</div></a></div>');