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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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Does the Wikipedia API support searches for a specific template?

Is it possible to query the Wikipedia API for articles that contain a specific template? The documentation does not describe any action that would filter search results to pages that contain a template. Specifically, I am after pages that contain…
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No response from MediaWiki API using jQuery

I've tried to get some content from Wikipedia as JSON: $.getJSON("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles="+title+"&format=json", function(data) { doSomethingWith(data); }); But I got nothing in…
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How to know if the wikipedia content from API contains an useful article or an ambiguous one

I can get the Wikipedia article in XML or any other format. But for a term I want to know first if the returned text contains full article or simply contains ambiguous terms like the entered one. So "SEO" is an ambiguous(or redirect) term, but how…
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How to obtain data in a table from Wikipedia API?

I'm trying to get all the content from Wikipedia:Unusual_articles and I'm able to get the list of table content by calling this endpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&prop=sections&page=Wikipedia:Unusual_articles and…
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Wikipedia API: search for famous people

I have the following Wikipedia API search…
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Get the first lines of a Wikipedia article

I got a Wikipedia article and I want to fetch the first z lines (or the first x characters, or the first y words; it doesn't matter) from the article. The problem: I can get either the source Wiki text (via the API) or the parsed HTML (via a direct…
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Wikipedia list=search REST API: how to retrieve also Url of matching articles

I'm studying Wikipedia REST API but I'm not able to find the right option to get also URLs for a search query. this is the URL of the…
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Wikipedia api fulltext search to return articles with title, snippet and image

I've been looking for a way to query the wikipedia api based on a search string for a list of articles with the following properties: Title Snippet/Description One or more images related to the article. I also have to make the query using…
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Wikipedia API: how to search for a term in a specific category

I'm having hard time to figure out a basic task: how to find a term restricted in a specific category.. i feel Wiki API documentation is kinda confusing... I'd just like to receive as output a JSON file with all the suggestions related to that…
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Fetch excerpt from Wikipedia article?

I've been up and down the Wikipedia API, but I can't figure out if there's a nice way to fetch the excerpt of an article (usually the first paragraph). It would be nice to get the HTML formatting of that paragraph, too. The only way I currently see…
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Get first paragraph (and only text) of a Wikipedia article returns not desired result

I'm trying to retrieve the first paragraph of text for an article of Wikipedia, UNIX in this example, but it returns me a non-desired output. For what I've been reading on the Wikipedia api and here on StackOverflow, this is the request URL to make…
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WebRequest to connect to the Wikipedia API

This may be a pathetically simple problem, but I cannot seem to format the post webrequest/response to get data from the Wikipedia API. I have posted my code below if anyone can help me see my problem. string pgTitle = txtPageTitle.Text; …
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How to access Wikipedia from R?

Is there any package for R that allows querying Wikipedia (most probably using Mediawiki API) to get list of available articles relevant to such query, as well as import selected articles for text mining?
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How to get place description using Google API or any other API?

I am using Google API to get the place information and store it into database. Using Google API I am able to get address, opening hours, rating and reviews as shown in below image. But, I am not able to get place description which is highlighted in…
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How to get all URLs in a Wikipedia page

It seems like Wikipedia API's definition of a link is different from URL? I'm trying to use the API to return all the urls in a specific wiki page. I have been playing around with this query that I found from this page under generators and…
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