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Asked: 2026-05-21T04:17:30+00:00

I would like to fetch the WikiText from a Wikipedia page and display it

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I would like to fetch the WikiText from a Wikipedia page and display it in a browser using Javascript. The following is what I currently have:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="wikiInfo">&nbsp;</div>

  <script>
    $.get('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=Dog&callback=?',
         function(data) {
           $("div").add(data);
           alert('load performed');
   });
  </script>
</body>
</html>

However, this doesn’t seem to work. Eventually, I would like to be able to save the fetched wikitext to a variable as well, so any help on that would be appreciated too.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It is cross domain, so it doesn’t work… make a wiki.php and fetch “wiki.php?title=Dog” with JS…

    function curl($url){
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_close ($ch);
    return curl_exec($ch);
}

$title = $_GET["title"];

echo curl("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=json&callback=?&titles=$title");

    Edited using @Tgr WikiPedia link. I also suggest parsing JSON in PHP and then outputing HTML or raw text.

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