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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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Parse birth and death dates from Wikipedia?

I'm trying to write a python program that can search wikipedia for the birth and death dates for people. For example, Albert Einstein was born: 14 March 1879; died: 18 April 1955. I started with Fetch a Wikipedia article with Python import…
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How do I grab just the parsed Infobox of a wikipedia article?

I'm still stuck on my problem of trying to parse articles from wikipedia. Actually I wish to parse the infobox section of articles from wikipedia i.e. my application has references to countries and on each country page I would like to be able to…
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How to query Wiktionary API and get part of speech

I'd like to get the part of speech and maybe the definition for English words. I found a link like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srwhat=text&srsearch=don%27t but it doesn't seem to get me the results I see on…
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API to retrieve info about famous people

I'm looking for some callable way to get information about famous people and celebrities. Given a string, I'd like to determine if it's the name of a famous person, and if so, if they're alive and perhaps what category they fall into (e.g. Actor,…
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How to get a short snippet of text and the main image of Wikipedia articles by API?

I'm trying to create a simple clone of Wikipedia that allows the user to search for a subject, and then display 10 results that contain the article's image and a short snippet of text. I've been able to pass the user supplied search field to my…
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How do I get a list of MediaWiki namespaces?

How do I get a list of MediaWiki namespaces? Ideally with name and number.
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Wikipedia search API get redirect pageID

I get many Wikipedia pageIDs in DB, and some of them are already redirected to somewhere else. So I want to know how to get these new pageIDs. I check the Wikipedia web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=11601783 It says (Redirected from....)…
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Random article API call is returning User talk pages?

I'm trying to pull a random article from the WikiMedia API, but my code seems to only grab User talk pages... $(document).ready(function(){ …
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Wikipedia API: how to get the number of revisions of a page?

Anyone know how to get the number of revisions of a wikipedia page using mediawiki API? I have read this API documentation, but can't find the related API: Revision API
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How to retrieve parts of Wikipedia content into Android App?

Basically, I want to retrieve content from wikipedia. But I want to display it inside my Android Apps directly. Not immidiately redirect to the internet browser, but to display it inside my apps first. Currently, I manage to request the Wikipedia…
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Retrieve another language of a Wikipedia page

Task: We have Wikipedia English page and need to retrieve the same page address in Russian. I know the Semantic Web solution - use simple query to DbPedia, but I am curious whether there are traditional solutions. I have asked the same question in…
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Does Wikipedia API support CORS or only JSONP available?

This question related to another question, which was asked year ago. Author asked how to make cros-origin request using JavaScript and Wikipedia API and one comment was: en.wikipedia.org doesn't seem to allow CORS and he was advised to use JSONP…
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Retrieve a list of all Wikipedia languages programmatically

I need to retrieve a list of all existing languages for a certain wiki project. For example, all Wikivoyage or all Wikipedia languages, just like on their landing pages. I prefer to do this via MediaWiki API, if it's possible. Thanks for your time.
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How do I get the HTML of a wiki page with Pywikibot?

I'm using pywikibot-core, and I used before another python Mediawiki API wrapper as Wikipedia.py (which has a .HTML method). I switched to pywikibot-core 'cause I think it has many more features, but I can't find a similar method. (beware: I'm not…
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retrieve data from Wikipedia and show it using angularjs

I am new to angularjs. I am trying to get data from wikipedia and show it in the front end. I retrived the data from wiki using the following php code $url =…
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