Hi i am working on a site which fetches random articles from Wikipedia and displays them on my site. The problem is i have no idea how to retrieve those articles. Documentation is also of no help. Can someone advice me how to approach it? Can we use api's? I am using PHP+HTML.
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2Welcome. Please read [how to ask](http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) and what is in scope at Stack Overflow. – micstr Jun 21 '16 at 07:06
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1The link to a random article on Wikipedia is `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random`. You could just make an AJAX call to that page, and then place the contents of the return data's `` tag where you want it. – Ben Hillier Jun 21 '16 at 07:09
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Very recently there's been a new API endpoint released.
It gives you the random article in a requested format, which could be just a title, html, summary, mobile-sections or mobile-sections-lead (special formats optimised for use in mobile apps). Also it's possible to get a set of articles related to a random article.
Also this is a 'smart random' - it filters out articles without content, special pages etc, so you are a bit more certain to get a good random article using this API endpoint, then a special page.
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Just use this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random It will show you a random article. You can try to in include it on your site with php or as iframe.
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What i want is that the whole article is displayed "as is" on my site. – Anidh Singh Jun 21 '16 at 07:22
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You mean the article without wikipedias menu-bar? Then you could try something like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4101770/load-content-of-a-div-on-another-page – Jun 21 '16 at 07:28
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Thanks but that is implemented through JQuery isn't there any PHP workaround? – Anidh Singh Jun 21 '16 at 07:38
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I can't imagine how to do this with php but you could try to play around with the `include("")` method. – Jun 21 '16 at 07:44
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