Support Wikipedia anchors in onebox

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It would be nice if http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Secure_cookie oneboxed the correct section, instead of the top section.

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for fun and giggles
jsFiddle Experiment | Getting wikipedia section content with ajax
http://jsfiddle.net/lid0/m320cwuz/

utilizing the Wikipedia API ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page ).

To retrieve the section content with this approach I had to make 2 requests

  1. get a list of all the sections of an article to identify its numeric id (needed for the 2nd request)
  2. request of a particular section content based on the id.

The bad
The solution return the entire section and not just the first paragraphs as onebox appears to do.
I was thinking that using the wiki api might make the process more efficient at least, but it is not
additional processing is required to fix relative a tags

  • it also return some nonsense [edit] text

my conclusion is that is probably better to just go with the current approach and use Nokogiri for section parsing :smile:

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https://github.com/lidlanca/onebox/commit/3ccb2d7fccbb1eab4108307fc4c20baa7c46a554

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WAT awesome you got your dev environment going!

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Technically my Dev environment is working but it is limping due to virtualbox issues.
Hopefully the next virtualbox release will magically fix the bug I experience.

But luckily the onebox can be worked as a standalone, wasn’t too much trouble to get it working on windows.

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This is working now :smile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Secure_cookie
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