Question

I’m finally successful in pulling data using the Wikipedia API, but there’s something I really don’t understand, and I can’t seem to find the answer.

I’m using this to query data:

var title = "Fort_Capuzzo";
$.getJSON("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content&titles=" + title + "&format=json&callback=?", function(data) {                               
console.log(data);
});

This returns an object which I can of course drill into to pull what I need. However, nowhere in the documentation does it state which parameters to use to pull specific data from within the content. To be more specific please view this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Madagascar

Say I wanted to pull the date, location, and perhaps result for that battle only from the right module on the page. How would I do this?

Thanks for any help!!

Answer 1

I used FireBug in Firefox to take a look at the object returned.

alert(data.query.pages[204126].revisions[0].user);

so the above alerts out i “Magus732”

From there you can take a look at the returned structure and come up with code to grab the details.

edit

alert(data.query.pages[204126].revisions[0]["*"]);

As far as parsing that goes, you may need to apply some clever css using jQuery or regular expressions to format it correctly and hide stuff you don’t need.