How to use wikipedia api if it exists? [closed]

Answer 1

Below is a working example that prints the first sentence from Wikipedias New York Yankees page to your web browsers console:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php is the endpoint for your url. You can see how to structure your url by visiting: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

I used jsonp as the dataType to allow cross-site requests. More can be found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Cross-site_requests

Last but not least, make sure to reference the Jquery.ajax() API: http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/