That’s a classical problem : i has the value of end of loop when the callback is called. You can fix it like this : for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) { (function(i) { // protects i in an immediately called function $.getJSON(‘/api.php?action=query&list=querypage&qppage=” + array[i] + “&format=json’, function (data) { $(‘#’ + … Read more
You can do it with a URL call to the Wikipedia API like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xmlfm&titles=Scary%20Monsters%20and%20Nice%20Sprites&rvsection=0 Replace the titles= section with your page title, and format=xmlfm to format=json if you want the article in JSON format.
Here are a few different possible approaches; use whichever works for you. All my code examples below use requests for HTTP requests to the API; you can install requests with pip install requests if you have Pip. They also all use the Mediawiki API, and two use the query endpoint; follow those links if you … Read more
Use action=parse to get the html: /api.php?action=parse&page=test One way to get the text from the html would be to load it into a browser and walk the nodes, looking only for the text nodes, using JavaScript.
The Wiktionary API can be used to query whether or not a word exists. Examples for existing and non-existing pages: http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=test http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=testx The first link provides examples on other types of formats that might be easier to parse. To retrieve the word’s data in a small XHTML format (should more than existence be required), request … Read more
You really really need to spend some time reading the documentation, as this took me a moment to look and click on the link to fix it. :/ but out of sympathy i’ll provide you a link that maybe you can learn to use. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New_York_Yankees&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content That’s the variabled you will be looking to get. Your … Read more
MediaWiki’s API is running on Wikipedia (docs). You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself. More information.
I don’t think anyone will take the time to explain the code for you. A good opportunity for you to do some debugging. ArrayIndexOutOfBounds comes from response.split(“\”extract\”:\””)[1]. There is no guarantee that the String response can be split into at least 2 parts. Add a check to avoid the error. Instead of… String result = … Read more