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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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Rails + MediaWiki API for Wikipedia data extraction

I am trying to use Rails to extract data from Wikipedia, based on a search term. For example, 1) if I have the String "American Idol", I want to pass that to Wikipedia and get a list of the articles that relate to that. My goal will be to take the…
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get list of desambiguated homonyms from wikipedia / wikidata / linked data

If I search for "George Bush" manually on wikipedia I'll get this page which lists homonyms with short descriptions. I would like to feed my search to an api and get the following info : George H. W. Bush George W. Bush George Bush (biblical…
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How to get coordinates from a Wikipedia page through API?

I want to get the coordinates of a Wikipedia page through their API. I want to put the page title as 'titles' parameter. I have searched SO for a solution but seems they are scrapping the page then extracting. Is it possible through their API?
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How to get table data from Wikipedia page?

Is there somebody who knows how to use the Wikipedia API to get JSON or XML data out from a table on a specific Wikipedia page? Is there maybe a different way to do this? For example from here…
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How to get more than default 10 results from Wikipedia API?

I am using Wikipedia API where I get the images of certain string I input. It always returns 10 result but I want more than that approx…
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Getting all Wikipedia articles with coordinates inside London

Generally I want to get the links (and titles) of all Wikipedia articles with coordinates inside London. I tried using Google, but unfortunately did't come with proper search terms. Any hints?
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Mediawiki API: How do I list all pages of a category and for each page show all of it's categories?

I am using the following wikimedia API to list all pages with a certain category: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Categorymembers E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Physics This gives me a…
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How to get all city pages from Wikipedia by using LINQ-to-Wiki?

I have used LINQ-to-Wiki to get pages from Wikipedia to my ASP.NET MVC webapplication.I have used the below query to get Pages having title like "India". var wikipedia = new Wiki("Example"); var data = wikipedia.Query.allpages() .Where(i =>…
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How to get more info within only one geosearch call via Wikipedia API?

I am using an API call similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=geosearch&gsradius=10000&gscoord=41.426140|26.099319. I returns something like this
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Retrieving the Interlanguage links from an exported Wikipedia article?

I used to retrieve the interlanguage links from an exported Wikipedia article by parsing the export with some regular expressions. In phase 1 of the WikiData project these links have been moved to a separate page on Wikidata. For example the article…
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Wiki quotes API?

I would want to get a structured version of a Wikiquote page via JSON (basically I need all phrases) Example: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(film) I tried with:…
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A robust search on DBpedia by title

I need to write a SPARQL query to get movies from dbpedia. I have wrote almost all the query but I have this problem: I have all of these titles, and they have to give me the same wikipedia resource: Spider-man Spiderman Film: Spiderman Spiderman…
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Wikimedia API image search with public domain filter

I would like to query Wikimedia API to find all images that contain a keyword and filter only the images that are public domain. So no additional CC-SA license. Curently I'm using the following query to extract the…
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Scrape Data from Wikipedia

I am trying to find or build a web scraper that is able to go through and find every state/national park in the US along with their GPS coordinates and land area. I have looked into some frameworks like Scrapy and then I see there are some sites…
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How to extract data from a Wikipedia article?

I have a question regarding parsing data from Wikipedia for my Android app. I have a script that can download the XML by reading the source from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=text&format=xml&page=ARTICLE_NAME (and also the JSON…
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