Hi to all.
I'm trying to do an exercise from FreeCodeCamp (http://freecodecamp.com/challenges/zipline-build-a-wikipedia-viewer) and I'm using, for now, this query (link to the API Sandbox): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=search&format=json&srsearch=lepidoptera&srnamespace=0&srprop=snippet|titlesnippet&generator=search&gsrsearch=lepidoptera
I get something like this:
...
"query": {
"pages": {
"53307": {
"pageid": 53307,
"ns": 0,
"title": "Lepidoptera",
"index": 1
},
"31500598": {
"pageid": 31500598,
"ns": 0,
"title": "List of Lepidoptera of Metropolitan France",
"index": 2
},
"8279262": {
"pageid": 8279262,
"ns": 0,
"title": "List of Lepidoptera that feed on Ipomoea",
"index": 10
},
...
},
...,
"search": [
{
"ns": 0,
"title": "Lepidoptera",
"snippet": "The <span class=\"searchmatch\">Lepidoptera</span> (/\u02ccl\u025bp\u0268\u02c8d\u0252pt\u0259r\u0259/ lep-i-DOP-t\u0259r-\u0259) is an order of insects that includes moths and butterflies (both called lepidopterans). 180,000 species",
"titlesnippet": "<span class=\"searchmatch\">Lepidoptera</span>"
},
{
"ns": 0,
"title": "List of Lepidoptera of Metropolitan France",
"snippet": "<span class=\"searchmatch\">Lepidoptera</span> of France consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from Metropolitan France. According to a recent estimate, there are a total of",
"titlesnippet": "List of <span class=\"searchmatch\">Lepidoptera</span> of Metropolitan France"
},
{
"ns": 0,
"title": "Macroglossinae (Lepidoptera)",
"snippet": "The Macroglossinae are a sub-family of Sphingidae moths in the order <span class=\"searchmatch\">Lepidoptera</span>. The subfamily is divided into three tribes: Dilophonotini, Macroglossini",
"titlesnippet": "Macroglossinae (<span class=\"searchmatch\">Lepidoptera</span>)"
},
...
]
...
Well... My doubt is: what thing exactly refers to the «index» parameter in «pages» objects? At first instance, I believed it was the index of the same page in the «search» array of objects. That seems logic. But, when using that, sometimes certain indexes simply don't match (they pair «pageid» from one page with «titlesnippet», «snippet», etc from another page). So, I don't know if that «index» parameter is, in fact, about some other thing or if, instead, there is a bug/problem with the API in this matter. And, of course, I know that array index order starts at 0. And already searched about this in the wiki, and found nothing.
If anybody can enlighten me about this, I will be very grateful :). Thanks in advance for reading me :).
And also my apologies in advance, just in case I commited some mistake here: this is my first time writing to a mailing list.