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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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Get random SVG image using MediaWiki API

Is it possible to use the MediaWiki API to return a random image? If so can I specify a filetype such as SVG?
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Wikipedia API for Python: how can I get the item ID from a corresponding page?

I am using Wikipedia-API 0.5.4, and I would like to retrieve the item ID for the item being discussed on a given page. Is it possible to do this using the data returned from a page query? I am able to retrieve the pageid. However, pages in different…
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Too many re-renders. React limits the number of renders to prevent an infinite loop - why?

I'm trying to divide results into categories from a search using Wikipedia API. Here is my Search component: function Search() { const [value, setValue] = useState(""); const [results, setResults] = useState([]); useEffect(() => { …
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How to list all anonymous (so IP-public) edits made to Wikipedia from a specific IP address?

Lets say I have an IP address, for example the IP address of the Hungarian Parliament: 193.224.28.151 How can I get a list of all Wikipeida edits made using this IP address? On a Tom Scott webpage, I read: Here's a fact: Wikipedia stores the IP…
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"En dash" being garbled during http response handling or text manipulation

I'm writing code to work with text from Wikipedia and am having issues with en dashes being garbled. I haven't worked with en dashes or other non-standard characters before (non-standard to me being character that don't appear on my keyboard ;), so…
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Python Split string after 2000 characters

I'm working on a discord bot that can return the summary of Wikipedia articles. but there's an issue, some summaries are longer than 2000 characters, which exceeds discord's character limit. is there a way I can split my string into multiple…
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Can I get a version of a Wikipedia page as of specified date?

I am trying to access old version of Wiki pages using data instead of "oldid". Usually to access and a version of a wiki page, I have to use the page id like this https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=969106986, is there a way…
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Using wikipedia module in python

I am using wikipedia module in my python code. I would like to have an input from user to search from wikipedia and get 2 lines from its summary. Since there might be many topics with same name, I used like this. import wikipedia value=input("Enter…
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How to get Wikipedia content using Wikipedia's URL?

Is it possible to create an input field where you can paste a Wikipedia page link and it will get all the text contents from that page? I'm trying to integrate a feature on my web application where people can paste their Wikipedia page link/URL they…
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Wikipedia api python returns weird results

import wikipedia print(wikipedia.summary("Tomato", sentences=3)) Why does this code return a disambiguation error with "tom tom" and not just a summmary/disambiguation error to the entry "tomato"? The search term is clearly not tom tom or am I…
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Python OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor after opening big json file

I just tried to read in a big json file (the Wikipedia json dump) in Python line by line and got the Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/.../test_json_wiki_file.py", line 19, in test_fct() File…
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How to access a property whose name consists of an asterisk in PowerShell?

The wikipedia API returns JSON that contains an element with the name *. How can I access such a property in PowerShell? Example: $json = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri…
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Extracting table data from wikipedia API

I need to extract the table at the right side for any politician from wikipedia. I tried to use the wikipedia API for this purpose. But I was not able to extract the table data. The code I have tried so far is as follows : import wikipedia person =…
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PHP + Wikipedia: Get content from the first paragraph in a Wikipedia article?

I’m trying to use Wikipedia’s API (api.php) to get the content of a Wikipedia article provided by a link (like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackoverflow). And what I want is to get the first paragraph (which in the example of the Stackoverflow…
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MediaWiki API: How to get an article's list of editors

As part of the WP:ASE project, I want to get the list of editors that have edited a given article. For instance, for the article Szklarka Mielęcka (history) that would be: Kotbot, AnomieBOT, Xenobot I could not find anything in the MediaWiki…
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