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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>
  1. Below the newly added html tag insert the below script tag as is: 
<script src="https://isocialPractice.github.io/factOfTheDay/js/factOfTheDay.js"></script>
  1. 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.