Fact of the Day

This repository works with the ctrl + click Wikimedia API Portal. It calls the API and gets the day's featured article(s) from Wikipedia. The results are stored in a JSON file, and the output is an extract that day's featured article.

To see a working sample ctrl + click Fact of The Day Example.

Quickstart - copy/paste below into html file:

<div id="factOfTheDay"></div>
<script src="https://isocialPractice.github.io/factOfTheDay/js/factOfTheDay.js"></script>

Instructions

1. In an html document add any tag with the id attrubte set to id="factOfTheDay". For example:
   

<div id="factOfTheDay"></div>

2. Below the newly added html tag insert the below script tag as is:
   

<script src="https://isocialPractice.github.io/factOfTheDay/js/factOfTheDay.js"></script>

3. Add any additional elements or styling as needed.

To use with additional functionality; copy, clone, and/or extract this repo and make edits as needed. For the most part the comments within each file should provide quasi-instructions.

DIRECTORY NOTES:

1. API - somewhere in site root
   • extracts json from API call
   • NOTE - the current json file is just for example purposes.
2. bin - somewhere in site server
   • a cronjob to get a daily json file
   • IMPORTANT - do not put within site root.
3. js - somewhere in site root
   • makes an AJAX request to get extracted date from API call.

License CC0 v1.0 Universal.