Unable to fetch data from mediawiki api using XMLHttpRequest

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Add origin=* to the request as shown here

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Add origin=* to handle CORS in your wikipedia api url to fix your immediate problem - use devtools console to see the error message in the first place "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&origin=*&titles=Main Page" Add format=json&formatversion=2&utf8 to get JSON instead of HTML - UTF-8 is for proper handling of characters from non-English languages "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&origin=*&format=json&formatversion=2&utf8&titles=Main Page" chrome devtools console…