Getting link from random article

javascript, wikimedia

Solution

It's not as easy as you might think. The API returns pages with internal ID's, and you have to use the API again to get information on the particular page, such as the URL.

$.getJSON("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=random&grnnamespace=0&prop=extracts&explaintext&exintro=&format=json&callback=?", function (data) {
    $.each(data.query.pages, function(k, v) {
        $.getJSON('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&pageids='+v.pageid+'&inprop=url&format=json&callback=?', function(url) {
            $.each(url.query.pages, function(key, page) {
                console.log(page); // contains the page data
                var url = page.fullurl; // the url to the page
            });
        });
    });
});

FIDDLE

Problem

I have a function that gets the first section of a random Wikipedia article, but I don't know how to get the actual URL of that article. I've looked around in the WikiMedia API and couldn't find it. ``` getRandomArticle : function() { return $.getJSON("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=random&grnnamespace=0&prop=extracts&explaintext&exintro=&format=json&callback=?", function (data) {}); } ``` Any ideas?

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