topic Re: Bringing Text from Wikipedia into a Popup in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Bringing Text from Wikipedia into a Popup

JanetRogers — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:02:45 GMT

I am interested in bringing text from Wikipedia and displaying it in a popup. (This is a map of the world and I want a country summary from Wikipedia to appear in a popup). I am able to get the text via the Wikipedia API reasonably successfully (eg "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles="+ CountryNameField +"&prop=extracts%7Cpageimages%7Cinfo&pithumbsize=400&inprop=url&redirects=&format=json&origin=*") however, I can only create a link to this text and not bring it in to the popup for display.

If anyone can point me to information that will enable me to do that, I would appreciate it.

Re: Bringing Text from Wikipedia into a Popup

jcarlson — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:33:22 GMT

Unfortunately, what you're looking to do is make a URL request and parse the response, something that's a bit outside the scope of Arcade's capabilities. This may be possible with some JavaScript in, say, a custom web map, but I don't think it's possible in Pro.

Re: Bringing Text from Wikipedia into a Popup

JanetRogers — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:53:49 GMT

Thanks for your reply. I had done a lot of research into the popups and could not see any way to do it, but, as a last resort thought I would post here in case I had missed something. It looks as if it can't be done easily.