Question

What's the proper way to extract wiki page number from page source, with jquery?

For example, for wiki page W4567 i'd like to get the number "4567" so I can do further things with it.

Btw, I see all around code like: onload="g1(this, 'WikiPage', 2508, 2, false)". I wonder if that's the right thing to use.

Answer 1

I would use the window.location object to get the URL and then look for the W4567 in it.

You could also write a plugin to add a javascript object to the page with whatever article info you need.

Answer 2

If you'd also like your code to work on pages where the wiki number is specified via the ixWikiPage parameter (e.g. when you are editing that wiki page), you could say this:

var rgWikiResults = /(?:\?W|ixWikiPage=)(\d+)/.exec(window.location.search);
var ixWiki = rgWikiResults ? rgWikiResults[1] : null;