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Related to the use of the MediaWiki API on Wikipedia. Consider also the tags [wikipedia] if your question isn't about the API or [mediawiki-api] if your question isn't about Wikipedia.

Documentation for the API is available at mediawiki.org; a summary of all available parameters and short help is available by accessing the API endpoint on the wiki.

In addition, there is a REST API that allows fetching commonly used data in a simple format. A list of all endpoints can be found in the REST API Documentation.

Please make sure to read the etiquette for best practices for using the API and general usage guidelines.

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

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.…
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How to get content from the Wikipedia API for a movie?

I tried to get the description of the movie "Your Highness" from the Wikipedia API but it gives me nothing. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=your%20highness&prop=revisions&rvprop=content When I google "Your Highness"…
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looking for a wikipedia api that can give me their article in XML

I am looking for a wikipedia api that can give me an article (no image) to a respective query. I have seen the wikipedia api used with actions=opensearch and query=search. Please tell me which one is correct or if there is any other action I should…
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Distinguish Wikipedia Disambiguations from Normal Pages

Currently, I'm attempting to retrieve the content of a given Wikipedia page to a plain text file. Using XPath, I have code that does this perfectly. However, there is just one simple problem: some pages on Wikipedia are disambiguation pages. Now,…
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Wikipedia query returns error 403

I'm querying Wikipedia using the following code, but I always get an error (403 forbidden). When I type the exact same url in my browser, however, it works. I've been using the same code before to query other web apis, so I am not sure what's…
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Count wikipedia results

I'd like to get the number of Wikipedia pages matching a condition. e.g. "house" --> 1,200 pages "man" --> 13,000 pages "university college" --> 360 pages Among many other ways, I can do this by indexing Wikipedia with Lucene, but that's pretty…
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how to get search result from Wikipedia

I am using EditTextView , where user enter some text and make a search. I want to search the Wikipedia for and get result against the text. How do I can search a query from Wikipedia. I found the API. But I did not found a way to get the search…
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Wiki page scraping using Sheets (why is query not always working right?)

so with the help of the ppl here I've got this query for scraping a certain section from wiki page, but I've noticed it's not always working right. In some cases, it's scraping other data points sections in the page, and I can't figure out why. I…
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RASA : ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'wikipedia'

I'm learning to use rasa language. To diversify the answers of the goal I decided to use the Wikipedia api. To create my working environment I used anaconda with the following commands: conda create --name rasaWiki python == 3.7.6 conda activate…
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How to get the population of a location query (country or state/province and/or county) using wikipedia API?

I am trying to use the Covid-19 Dataset to build an SIR model. In order to build this model, I require the population of each location (country or province/state and/or county) to calculate the S (susceptible) in SIR. Since this dataset does not…
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How to access PetScan results programmatically?

I want to use Petscan https://petscan.wmflabs.org/ to find articles that belong to certain categories, etc... It is easy to do this with the website they provide. I was wondering if there is a way to do this in Python. I create a URL to send the…
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Real-time data streaming using Wikipedia's RecentChanges API

I'm lately trying to create a demo on real time streaming using NiFi -> Kafka -> Druid -> Superset. For the purposes of this demo I chose to use Wikipedia's RecentChanges API in order to get asynchronous data of the most recent changes. I use this…
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How can I get image title using Wikipedia API

Suppose, that I got URLs of images on the page, for i in wiki.images: print (i) Is there easy way to get images titles?
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Getting search results from wikidata website, but not API

I'm trying out the wikidata API but have some trouble with the search query "Jas 39 C Gripen". It returns results on the wikidata website, but not if I use the API. On The wikidata website I get two search results for the…
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What's the best way to interpret JSON from an api ?

I'm working on an app that uses the wikipedia api, and i'm struggling to find the best way to interpret the results given to me by the ajax request : The JSON I get looks like this : { "batchcomplete": "", "query": { "pages": { …
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