Wikipedia Viewer not working

[kelifine]

I’m having trouble getting data from my getJSON call on my Wikipedia viewer. The link takes me to the data I want when I paste it in a ne window, if I mess with the link I get the fail alert, but otherwise nothing is showing up in the console whether I try to log the data or just a word. Can anyone help? This is what I have:

$(document).ready(function() {
$(“form”).submit(function() {
var input = $("#wikisearch").val();
var link = “https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&format=json&origin=*&search="+input+"&limit=5&callback=%3F”;
$.getJSON(link, function(data) {
$.fail(alert(“Try again”));
console.log(data);
});

[AlannaL]

You need to use jsonp, so use an ajax request instead of getJSON

I don’t know enough to explain it properly, but hopefully this link helps!

The reason it worked is that you are using JSONP, which is quite different from normal JavaScript Ajax calls (JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object). A brief explanation (somewhat technical): Even though jQuery uses the $.ajax notation, this is not really an Ajax call. It is JSONP (when the datatype property is set to JSONP). The way JSONP works is that it dynamically adds a < script > tag into the header of your HTML file. When your dynamically generated script tag (by jQuery) is execute…

[kelifine]

Thanks, I actually got it working using getJSON and an origin parameter. thanks though!