Need help retrieving JSON from Wikipedia API [Solved]

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Hi all,
I have just begun the ‘wikipedia viewer’ project. Right now I am just trying to display the first search title on the page. So far I just have the search-input field, a search button and a random article button on my page(no CSS or other fancy stuff yet)

Problem:
No matter what I do, I can’t get the first search result on the screen. My codepen link is http://codepen.io/aks2161989/full/WxLoya/

Can anyone tell me what’s wrong with my code? Thanks in advance!

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Add &callback=? at the end of getJSON
$.getJSON("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles="+searchTerm+"&rvprop=content&format=json&rvsection=0&rvparse=1&callback=?

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@jenovs Thanks! That works perfectly.

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@jenovs Can you tell me what is the role of &callback=? ?

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It requests jsonp to get around cross origin issues:

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@JacksonBates Thanks for clearing my confusion!