Wikipedia Reader 1.0 released



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Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	on: October 26, 2023, 17:29 Quote Wikipedia Reader is an unofficial client to access Wikipedia's API to fetch encyclopedia articles and live search results and display them. It is written on and for System 6 and requires MacTCP. Due to Wikipedia no longer serving its API over plaintext HTTP, a plaintext-to-TLS proxy is required to forward requests. Currently this defaults to using a free Cloudflare worker that I've setup, but the settings dialog in the application allows changing this to a private proxy if so desired (or perhaps some actual host on wikipedia.org if they ever support plaintext again). No translation or conversion is done server-side. Wikipedia Reader accesses the raw Wikitext markup of an article through the Wikipedia API, parses the markup, converts UTF-8 to MacRoman, and displays the text. Basic formatting such as bold, italic, underline, and header sizes are supported, and clicking on a hyperlink to another article will jump to that article. Download it from jcs.org I'm on OS9 at the moment, it does throw a "out of buf space" error and quits after fetching an article. Can someone confirm it works on System 7?
Last Edit: October 26, 2023, 17:39 by Bolkonskij
cballero 1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever	Reply #1 on: October 26, 2023, 18:19 I just downloaded it, ran it and fetched a few articles: it's working like a charm on Mac OS 8.1!

68040 512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !	Reply #2 on: October 26, 2023, 20:01 So it doesn't work with Open Transport under MacOS 8.1?

cballero 1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever	Reply #3 on: October 26, 2023, 23:00 I'm using it with OT, so MacTCP is not needed have you downloaded it and tested it out; did it not work for you?

mac-cellar 128 MB Posts: 176 Gotta love System 7	Reply #4 on: October 27, 2023, 00:27 Eager to try this tonight in 7.6.1. Incidentally, I like that when you leave the jcs.org page page open in a modern browser, it changes to display the classic After Dark flying toasters of old. A very nice touch!

ClassicHasClass 32 MB Posts: 39	Reply #5 on: October 27, 2023, 02:00 Looking at the source code, it seems like this could be converted to work with Crypto Ancienne. The HTTP request that would need to be modified is in https://amendhub.com/jcs/wikipedia/files/http.c .

68040 512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !	Reply #6 on: October 27, 2023, 13:08 @cballero - Still busy sucking the IA dry of XCMD stacks. Posting those links in the challenge was mean.

cballero 1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever	Reply #7 on: October 27, 2023, 17:41 I tend to forget you love sucking any and all 68k-content to fuel your 68k 'mad-scientist' lab, lol

68040 512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !	Reply #8 on: October 27, 2023, 21:19 @cballero - Actually, I test "any and all" of my "sucks" to check if they work on B-II and are - at least in theory - of some use to me. That is why it takes up so much time to get done with it.
Last Edit: November 10, 2023, 19:30 by 68040
Knezzen Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot	Reply #9 on: October 28, 2023, 15:38 Quote from: Bolkonskij I'm on OS9 at the moment, it does throw a "out of buf space" error and quits after fetching an article. Can someone confirm it works on System 7? Same issue on the 8600 running 7.6.1.

Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	Reply #10 on: October 31, 2023, 17:57 The author just answered my e-mail and told me he's working on a 1.1 that will fix the "out of buf space" error as well as allowing command-clicking on a link to open it in a new window. Cool!

MTT 256 MB Posts: 394 SSW7 Oldtimer	Reply #11 on: March 02, 2024, 04:35 Wikipedia 1.1 has been released, if anyone needs to check it out.

cballero 1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever	Reply #12 on: March 02, 2024, 05:10 I love updates like these! Talk about a graceful way to reclaim the modern internet

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