When using the Wikipedia API, how to retrieve the style sheets?

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I am trying to use the Wikipedia API to get HTML content from Wikipedia. I can't find the correct way to embed this. Since styles are not expanded, I woudld imagine I would need to specify the stylesheets used in the head of the HTML that embeds it.

How do I know what the correct CSS to include are?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 25 '12 at 07:19

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The answer is to add headitems in the api request, like so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Doritos&prop=text|headitems

That gives you another xml node, the content of which you can plop in the HEAD element of your HTML.

answered Jan 25 '12 at 07:19

Shahar Prish

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This doesn't return any CSS to me, only scripts :/ – A. Matías Quezada Nov 26 '13 at 09:10
headitems is now deprecated, I think the proper way now is to use headhtml : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Doritos&prop=text|headhtml – nathan raynal Nov 23 '20 at 22:54

When using the Wikipedia API, how to retrieve the style sheets?

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