9bitStudios / wikiblurb

A jQuery Plugin for Wikipedia and Other Wikis

Wikiblurb.js

A jQuery Plugin for Wikipedia and Other Wikis. All you have to do is call it on an element and Wikiblurb will populate that element with data from a wiki...

View Demo

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
    
    $('#article').wikiblurb();
    
    $('#otherWikiArticle').wikiblurb({
        wikiURL: "http://fallout.wikia.com/",
        apiPath: '',
        section: 0,
        page: 'Fallout',
        removeLinks: false,	    
        type: 'text',
        customSelector: '',
        callback: function(){ 
            console.log('Data loaded...');
        }
              
    });
    
});
</script>

Options

Below is a listing of options your can set....

Option	Value	Default Value	Description	Example
wikiURL	String	"http://en.wikipedia.org/"	The base URL of the wiki you want to get data from with trailing slash included	wikiURL: "http://fallout.wikia.com/"
apiPath	String	"w"	Any additional path needed to be added to properly get data from the API (no slashes). Wikipedia uses "w" but often this will be an empty string for other wikis.	wikiURL: ""
page	String	"Jimi_Hendrix"	The name of the wiki page.	page: "Brazil"
section	Integer or null	0	The section of the wiki you want to get data from. The entire page of content will be returned if section is set to null.	section: 4
removeLinks	Boolean	false	Setting this option to true will return just text data and will not have any links present.	removeLinks: true
type	String	"all"	Possible values are "text", "blurb", "infobox", and "custom"	type: "infobox"
customSelector	String	""	If the type setting is set to "custom", then this is the selector that Wikiblurb will look for	customSelector: ".mw-class"
callback	Function	function() { }	Callback that executes after data has been successfully loaded	function() { alert("Data loaded..."); }