Computing desk
< October 28	<< Sep \| October \| Nov >>	October 30 >

Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is a transcluded archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

October 29

Help with an url

Hello, I need to find the correct link to be able to reference a series of articles based on their profile on the 2023 Pan American Games website. For example, for the swimmer Coby Carrozza (reference number 5), the correct url is: https://results-santiago2023.org/#/participants/athletes?bio=SWM.11435021 (https://results-santiago2023.org/#/medals/search?&bio=SWM.3478795), but I put it in the article and when I click on it, it redirects to the general page (not to the swimmer's file). How can the URL be manipulated so that when adding it in the article as a reference it opens exactly the athlete's file? I appreciate your ideas. Leonprimer (talk) 18:37, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, it seems that Bornan (the company that implemented that competition's results systems) use software that queries their database asynchronously (using the URL parameters you describe) which returns a (proprietary format) object that is rendered (client side) using JavaScript. They haven't implemented a stable HTML-only query service nor a no-javascript fallback option (which also means the Wayback machine isn't helpful) - at least not that I can find. Given that this event includes a parasport element, one might think particular effort would have been put into its accessibility, which often means a plain-text-and-links-html site, but if that exists, I can't find it. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 19:07, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the answer. So means it, that regardless of the configuration used by the developer, we do not have any way to manipulate the url so that it shows the file of each athlete open in a window with its respective url instead of the popup form as shown, isn't it?

@Finlay McWalter:, I have a similar case: the url https://www.usaswimming.org/meet-the-team/national-team-roster, is there a way to find the identifier code of each athlete?, to use it for reference (now clicking on "View Bio" of each athlete opens a window but without changing the url). All the best. Leonprimer (talk) 23:40, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, I don't think you can find a static URL (that returns HTML, which is what you need) for either of these. The second one is similar (but different); it's also an AJAX download for each person (the second works differently - it submits a form with an HTTP POST, and gets an HTML fragment response, which its javascript then inserts into the page). -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 10:58, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]