URL of the final wikipage

[lawrencenull]

Was going through the API, is there a current way to generate a link to the wiki URL that the info is being pulled from.

[spencermountain]

hey lawrence, no there isn't a clean one. Maybe there should be.
right now i'd just do something like this:

let title=doc.title().replace(/ /g,'_')
title=encodeURIComponent(title)
let url=`${lang}.wikipedia.org/wiki/${title}}`

we need to store the language for the upcoming image url refactor, so maybe we should add this in after that.
cheers

[niebert]

When you pull from an other wiki domain - e.g. Wikiversity

• https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
• https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Water
• https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Risk_Management
  then the title replacement is the same, but you need also a domain replace in the generated url.
  A function title2url() could be implemented like this

/* FILE: /src/_fetch/_title2url
   function that converts a title from domain Wikipedia, Wikiversity, .... and 
   a specific language "lang" and a domain "wikipedia", "wikiversity" into 
   an URL that displays the source e.g.
   https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence 
   default language is: "en"
   default domain is: "wikipedia"
*/

const title2url = function( title, lang, domain ) {
  // set default values for parameters
   title = title || "Main Page";
   domain = domain || "wikipedia";
   lang = lang || "en";
   // replace blank to underscore 
   title=title.replace(/ /g,'_');
   title = encodeURIComponent(title);
   let url=`https://${lang}.${domain}.org/wiki/${title}}`
  return url;
};

module.exports =title2url;

Maybe Spencer could provide the function as file in /src/_fetch/_title2url.js for further use or integrate title2url into the API. See also Github-Wiki about the WikiID

cheers,

[spencermountain]

added .language() and .url() methods, will release as 8.1.0
cheers

[skipjack]

Can you ping this thread once 497e075 makes it into master and/or when the new release is cut?

[spencermountain]

sure

[spencermountain]

released as 8.1.0
cheers

[skipjack]

Works like a charm, thanks!

[skipjack]

I spoke too soon, I'm seeing a small issue where the final url from doc.url() contains .org twice, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org.org/wiki/Nuclear_Waste_Technical_Review_Board

I can look into this if you want, should be reproducible with the following script but note that I'm seeing it for every doc.url() call, not just this one:

const doc = await wtf.fetch('Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board')
console.log(doc.url())

[spencermountain]

ah, good eye.
fixed on dev, will add to next release.

[spencermountain]

fixed in 8.2.1