Is it possible to create an input field where you can paste a Wikipedia page link and it will get all the text contents from that page?
I'm trying to integrate a feature on my web application where people can paste their Wikipedia page link/URL they want to analyze on the input field. And the application will use that URL to get all the text content from that page.
Suppose the user inputs this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift
The application will return the text content of that page, like this:
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Her narrative songwriting, which often centers around her personal life, has received widespread media coverage. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2004 to pursue a career in country music. At age 14, she became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house, and at age 15, she signed her first record deal. Her 2006 eponymous debut studio album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s on the Billboard 200. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest .......
Also, I've tried this api, which works, but it just returns the header content, not the whole page content
I've gone through Wikipedia API and found none (yet). Any suggestions on how I do this?
Since you tagged node.js in your question, I'm assuming you are using Javascript. You could use an npm library called wikijs
An example from wikijs page
wiki({ apiUrl: 'https://es.wikipedia.org/w/api.php' })
.page('Cristiano Ronaldo')
.then(page => page.info())
.then(console.log);
Hope this works for you
You can use this API from Mediawiki to get the text of the article without any format:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exlimit=max&explaintext&titles=Taylor_Swift
It's actually the same API you mentioned in your question, but the only difference that you should remove &exintro parameter, and add these two parameters instead &exlimit=max&explaintext
In android I could use google play services and geo location functions to get a user to type a string like "London, England" or "McDonalds" etc.., and have the service take that string and return a set of Location Objects. Each one has a city,address,country,lat,long etc... details.
I'm now making a web app version of it and I want to know if its possible to do this in HTML/html5 with any plugins preferable by trusted companies like Google.
Thanks.
I have to question if you even looked ;)
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial
The Maps service was born on the web, of course that exists!
I have an intranet site for a small medical clinic, and on the front page I want to display upcoming events associated with the clinic-wide MS Office 365 email account.
I'm new to APIs, so some resources on how to get started would help.
The site is in PHP, but as I understand it, API functions can be done in JavaScript - either way is fine.
Once I can get an XML or JSON file from Microsoft, I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to format it for the site. The problem is just getting the info.
So far I have:
<script>
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("GET", "https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/users/{email address}/events", false);
req.send();
console.log(req.status);
console.log(req.StatusText);
</script>
The console logged:
"NetworkError: 401 Anonymous Request Disallowed
I've also tried the line req.open("GET", "https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/users/me/events", false{or true}/ {username}, {password});, to which the console logged
NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI: Access to restricted URI denied
Almost all the documentation I can find is directed toward individual users (employees of a company) interfacing with their 365 accounts through some web-based interface, so almost all of the urls have /me/ in them, indicating they have authenticated somehow. But I want my PHP or JavaScript script to automatically authenticate a single user and retrieve information. I imagine this requires hard-coding the user and password somewhere, but I've found no examples like that.
I'm obviously in way over my head, but can anyone offer any advice on how I can get this done? Or read more about how APIs work? Most of the documentation out there is directed at people who already have a certain level of knowledge, which I don't have, and don't really know how to get.
Thanks.
Missing part is authentication (OAuth) to connect from your app to O365..
Maybe this helps http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/bde5647a-fff1-4b51-b67b-2139de79ce4a%28Office.15%29.aspx
Yes, you do need to authenticate against the Office 365 APIs as indicated previously. To make calls against Office 365, you must register your app for OAuth against Azure AD.
I'd suggest looking at http://dev.office.com/getting-started/office365apis. It should guide you through setting up authentication and show you how to make the rest call.
I am trying to find the location of cell towers using MNC, MCC, lac and CellID.
I have tried many api's such as opencell, combian etc. But none of them are free.
Is there any rest free API available, but for the moment I am using Google geolocation api.
I am sending request in javascript like this
https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key=xxx&homeMobileNetworkCode=410&homeMobileCountryCode=310&locationAreaCode=415&cellId=42&format=json
and all the time it return "Not Found"
I checked many places on stackover, but could not find good solution or hint. In addition is there any Free Api Available for getting operator name by using data mnc, mcc, cellid and lac.
In addition, I have also tried to use this link to get location but I could not as I can not find what parameter I need to pass and what should be the url I need to create.
Please provide me some guidelines to get location and operator name for specific tower by using information such as mnc, mcc etc.
Thanks appreciated
Google describes the geolocate API endpoint in their docs. You tried to do a GET request, but they say that you should use POST, with JSON-Formatted data:
Communication is done over HTTPS using POST. Both request and response are formatted as JSON, and the content type of both is application/json.
If you want to use the undocumented API from your link, the URL is http://www.google.com/glm/mmap and the POST-data is what is written in the function WriteData. See the Java Docs for DataOutputStream if you are unfamiliar with the output produced by the various write..-methods.
As for getting the operator name, there are free databases available for that (alternative 1, alternative 2; search google for more, there are plenty).
I need users to be able to post data from a single page browser application (SPA) to me, but I can't put server-side code on the host.
Is there a web service that I can use for this? I looked at Amazon SQS (simple queue service) but I can't call their REST APIs from within the browser due to cross origin policy.
I favour ease of development over robustness right now, so even just receiving an email would be fine. I'm not sure that the site is even going to catch on. If it does, then I'll develop a server-side component and move hosts.
Not only there are Web Services, but nowadays there are robust systems that provide a way to server-side some logic on your applications. They are called BaaS or Backend as a Service providers, usually to provide some backbone to your front end applications.
Although they have multiple uses, I'm going to list the most common in my opinion:
For mobile applications - Instead of having to learn an API for each device you code to, you can use an standard platform to store logic and data for your application.
For prototyping - If you want to create a slick application, but you don't want to code all the backend logic for the data -less dealing with all the operations and system administration that represents-, through a BaaS provider you only need good Front End skills to code the simplest CRUD applications you can imagine. Some BaaS even allow you to bind some Reduce algorithms to calls your perform to their API.
For web applications - When PaaS (Platform as a Service) came to town to ease the job for Backend End developers in order to avoid the hassle of System Administration and Operations, it was just logic that the same was going to happen to the Backend. There are many clones that showcase the real power of this strategy.
All of this is amazing, but I have yet to mention any of them. I'm going to list the ones that I know the most and have actually used in projects. There are probably many, but as far as I know, this one have satisfied most of my news, whether it's any of the previously ones mentioned.
Parse.com
Parse's most outstanding features target mobile devices; however, nowadays Parse contains an incredible amount of API's that allows you to use it as full feature backend service for Javascript, Android and even Windows 8 applications (Windows 8 SDK was introduced a few months ago this year).
How does a Parse code looks in Javascript?
Parse works through classes and objects (ain't that beautiful?), so you first create a specific class (can be done through Javascript, REST or even the Data Browser manager) and then you add objects to specific classes.
First, add up Parse as a script tag in javascript:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.parsecdn.com/js/parse-1.1.15.min.js"></script>
Then, through a given Application ID and a Javascript Key, initialize Parse.
Parse.initialize("APPLICATION_ID", "JAVASCRIPT_KEY");
From there, it's all object manipulation
var Person = Parse.Object.extend("Person"); //Person is a class *cof* uppercase *cof*
var personObject = new Person();
personObject.save({name: "John"}, {
success: function(object) {
console.log("The object with the data "+ JSON.stringify(object) + " was saved successfully.");
},
error: function(model, error) {
console.log("There was an error! The following model and error object were provided by the Server");
console.log(model);
console.log(error);
}
});
What about authentication and security?
Parse has a User based authentication system, which pretty much allows you to store a base of users that can manipulate the data. If map the data with User information, you can ensure that only a given user can manipulate specific data. Plus, in the settings of your Parse application, you can specify that no clients are allowed to create classes, to ensure innecesary calls are performed.
Did you REALLY used in a web application?
Yes, it was my tool of choice for a medium fidelity prototype.
Firebase.com
Firebase's main feature is the ability to provide Real Time to your application without all the hassle. You don't need a MeteorJS server in order to bring Push Notifications to your software. If you know Javascript, you are half way through to bring Real Time magic to your users.
How does a Firebase looks in Javascript?
Firebase works in a REST fashion, and I think they do an amazing job structuring the Glory of REST. As a good example, look at the following Resource structure in Firebase:
https://SampleChat.firebaseIO-demo.com/users/fred/name/first
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know that you are retrieve the first name of the user "Fred", giving there's at least one -usually there should be a UUID instead of a name, but hey, it's an example, give me a break-.
In order to start using Firebase, as with Parse, add up their CDN Javascript
<script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.firebase.com/v0/firebase.js'></script>
Now, create a reference object that will allow you to consume the Firebase API
var myRootRef = new Firebase('https://myprojectname.firebaseIO-demo.com/');
From there, you can create a bunch of neat applications.
var USERS_LOCATION = 'https://SampleChat.firebaseIO-demo.com/users';
var userId = "Fred"; // Username
var usersRef = new Firebase(USERS_LOCATION);
usersRef.child(userId).once('value', function(snapshot) {
var exists = (snapshot.val() !== null);
if (exists) {
console.log("Username "+userId+" is part of our database");
} else {
console.log("We have no register of the username "+userId);
}
});
What about authentication and security?
You are in luck! Firebase released their Security API about two weeks ago! I have yet to explore it, but I'm sure it fills most of the gaps that allowed random people to use your reference to their own purpose.
Did you REALLY used in a web application?
Eeehm... ok, no. I used it in a Chrome Extension! It's still in process but it's going to be a Real Time chat inside a Chrome Extension. Ain't that cool? Fine. I find it cool. Anyway, you can browse more awesome examples for Firebase in their examples page.
What's the magic of these services? If you read your Dependency Injection and Mock Object Testing, at some point you can completely replace all of those services for your own through a REST Web Service provider.
Since these services were created to be used inside any application, they are CORS ready. As stated before, I have successfully used both of them from multiple domains without any issue (I'm even trying to use Firebase in a Chrome Extension, and I'm sure I will succeed soon).
Both Parse and Firebase have Data Browser managers, which means that you can see the data you are manipulating through a simple web browser. As a final disclaimer, I have no relationship with any of those services other than the face that James Taplin (Firebase Co-founder) was amazing enough to lend me some Beta access to Firebase.
You actually CAN use SQS from the browser, even without CORS, as long as you only need the browser to send messages, not receive them. Warning: this is a kludge that would make my CS professors cry.
When you perform a GET request via javascript, the browser will always perform the request, however, you'll only get access to the response if it was from the same origin (protocol, host, port). This is your ticket to ride, since messages can be posted to an SQS queue with just a GET, and who really cares about the response anyways?
Assuming you're using jquery, your queue is https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/71717171/myqueue, and allows anyone to post a message, the following will post a message with the body "HITHERE" to the queue:
$.ajax({
url: 'https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/71717171/myqueue' +
'?Action=SendMessage' +
'&Version=2012-11-05' +
'&MessageBody=HITHERE'
})
The'll be an error in the console saying that the request failed, but the message will show up in the queue anyways.
Have you considered JSONP? That is one way of calling cross-domain scripts from javascript without running into the same origin policy. You're going to have to set up some script somewhere to send you the data, though. Javascript just isn't up to the task.
Depending in what kind of data you want to send, and what you're going to do with it, one way of solving it would be to post the data to a Google Spreadsheet using Ajax. It's a bit tricky to accomplish though.Here is another stackoverflow question about it.
If presentation isn't that important you can just have an embedded Google Spreadsheet Form.
What about mailto:youremail#goeshere.com ? ihihi
Meantime, you can turn on some free hostings like Altervista or Heroku or somenthing else like them .. so you can connect to their server , if i remember these free services allows servers p2p, so you can create a sort of personal web services and push ajax requests as well, obviously their servers are slow for free accounts, but i think it's enought if you do not have so much users traffic, else you should turn on some better VPS or Hosting or Cloud solution.
Maybe CouchDB can provide what you're after. IrisCouch provides free CouchDB instances. Lock it down so that users can't view documents and have a sensible validation function and you've got yourself an easy RESTful place to stick your data in.