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Questions tagged [wikipedia-api]

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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How to use special characters in Wikipedia API?

If you query the wikipedia api for c# with a url such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=jsonfm&titles=c%23 The response removes the %23 / # and turns it into just C, and displays results for C…
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Find all pages that redirect to the existing/instanciated Wikipedia page

Given a page in wikipedia, how to find/retrieve (using either Wikipedia or Wikimedia) all the name of the pages that will redirect to this page ?
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Get random Wikipedia extract with Ajax

I'm trying to get the extract of a random Wikipedia page using Ajax. I've got as far as getting the data, but I'm having trouble outputting it. Here's my code: $.ajax({ type: "GET", url:…
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How to extract all reference data from a Wikipedia page?

Given any page on Wikipedia, such as the one for Coffee, I'm trying to figure out how to extract a list of all references (including any metadata) on the page. At first glance it seems this would be easy, since most pages list them all under a…
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Dbpedia/sparql: get population & lat/lng of all cities/towns/villages in UK

I'm entering the following query at http://dbpedia.org/sparql: PREFIX geo: SELECT ?s ?name ?value ?lat ?lng WHERE { ?s a . ?s…
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How to extract human-readable data using Wiki-data toolkit api?

I am using wikidata to fetch data for research. My goal is for each given name, e.g. Abdias Praetorius, get the entity's id, dob, place of birth, sex etc . The page is : https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q308161 And it seems easy. But when I used…
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What is the difference between DBPedia and Wikipedia data?

May I define (or calculate) the difference between DBPedia and Wikipedia data concerning, for example, Ecuadorian People? Does DBpedia contain the same Ecuadorian People existing in Wikipedia? If not - what is the difference (e.g. how to extract…
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Mediawiki API Sandbox - get all translation alternatives

I wish to retrive with wikimedia api (here it is the Sandbox) all translation versions of a page. As an example, in this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1935_births I need to retrive all links that are on the left sidebar after the…
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How to map between Freebase and Wikipedia?

I used the tool AIDA (a kind of named entity tool) to annotate a corpus and get the format like this: 2 Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany 11867 /m/0345h 6 United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom 31717 …
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Get Wikipedia pageid from title

I'm trying to get an image from a Wikipedia article. I have the title of the article but it seems like I need to know the pageid to access the thumbnail. How do I get the pageid from the title? My JavaScript…
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Wikipedia API get links to all images of preferred redirected articles in one API call?

I want to get the links to all the images for the default redirect pages for, say, "Hypertensive Disease" and "pulmonary edema." Right now, I am doing this through three api calls for each term. E.g,…
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Get Wikipedia math expressions using MediaWiki API

I want to get the content of tags in the API response MediaWiki. I've tried to use this query: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&format=xml&titles=delta-v And I'm getting valid xml file, but in place of I'm…
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Find main category for article using Wikipedia API

I have a list of articles and I want to find the main category of each article. Wikipedia lists its main categories here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Categories. I am able to find the subcategories of each article…
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MediaWiki return best match to query string

I want to essentially build my own search bar into wikipedia's api. Given a string entered by a user, it should return the first section from the wikipedia page that best matches that search string. It works perfectly if the title entered is…
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Wikipedia Api get amounts of words

I'm a bit stuck in all the options the Wikipedia api has. My goals is to get the amount of words of an wikipedia page. I have the url of the wiki. The search option does return this…
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