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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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how can one find categories of a wikipedia page using just links of pages?

Is there any API by which one can get all the categories of a page using the title or page id or url of that page? I tried searching on net but all I could find was getting dumps for specific categories. Any sort of help will be highly…
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Setting "an informative User-Agent string" in getURL

I am trying to access a Wikipedia page so to get a list of pages, and get the following error: library(RCurl) u <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=tal&namespace=4" getURL(u) [1] "Scripts should use an…
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Get total number of articles from a MediaWiki wiki programmatically

How can I get the total number of articles using the MediaWiki API? I couldn't find it in the docs: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching#Search_engine_features Even a rough approximation is fine.
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pass session cookies in http header with python urllib2?

I'm trying to write a simple script to log into Wikipedia and perform some actions on my user page, using the Mediawiki api. However, I never seem to get past the first login request (from this page:…
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How to get HTML content text of a Wikipedia Page (via Wikipedia API)?

i just want to get content (no link, no categories, no images...just text)
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Using Wikipedia's API to fetch results from search query

I am trying to use Wikipedia's API to make a search query, then append those results to my page. This is what I have so far : "use strict"; $(document).ready(function(){ function searchWikipedia(searchCriteria){ …
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Parsing Wikipedia countries, regions, cities

Is it possible to get a list of all Wikipedia countries, regions and cities with relations between them? I couldn't find any API appropriate for this task. What is be the easiest way to parse all the information I need? PS: I know, that there are…
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Convert from wiki to html

I'm using a wikipedia api for getting info from wikipedia. Is there anything for convert wiki text in html? I've tried mediacloth but i doesn't works well
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How can I make the Wikipedia API normalize and redirect without knowing the exact case of all characters?

If I try to get the language links for a page on Wikipedia via their API like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=langlinks&format=json&lllimit=10&llurl=&titles=wreck-it%20Ralph&redirects= I get a list of results. But if I…
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Finding and downloading images within the Wikipedia Dump

I'm trying to find a comprehensive list of all images on wikipedia, which I can then filter down to the public domain ones. I've downloaded the SQL dumps from here: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/ And studied the DB…
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Why does full-text search inside titles return error

When I perform full-text search with Wikipedia API, I can not narrow it to titles only (srwhat=title). So while search anywhere (default) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=sql&srnamespace=14&format=xml returns…
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Download images with MediaWiki API?

Is it possible to download images from Wikipedia with MediaWiki API?
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MediaWiki URL parameters without values

The query part of a URL seems to consist of key-value pairs separated by & and associated by =. I've taken to always using jQuery's $.param() function to URL-encode my query strings because I find it makes my code more readable and maintainable. In…
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Getting Wikipedia infobox content with JQuery

I'm looking to use JQuery to pull back contents of the Wikipedia infobox that contains company details. I think that I'm almost there but I just can't get the last step of the way var searchTerm="toyota"; var…
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Wikipedia API - Accessing JSON Object

I'm trying to pull the text out of a Wikipedia article using their API (API is a generous term for what they are offering, but we'll use it I guess), and I am running into issues regarding parsing of the subsequent JSON object I am getting back.…
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