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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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How to print mid popular summary of random post of certain topic from Wikipedia?

I want to print mid popular summary of random post of certain topic from Wikipedia using Wikipedia API but I am getting completely random topic. I have tried this: import requests def get_wikipedia(topic): response =…
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Wikipedia metadata dump?

I need metadata for wikipedia articles (title, views, time edited, categories, etc.). I was looking through the dumps at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20221201/ and there's so many that I'm not sure what to choose. I don't need a full dump…
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Download wikipedia with navigation popup text included

Does anyone know if I can download Wikipedia text data with the navigation popups included? I know there are existing text dump datasets [1,2], but as far as I can tell, they do not include the navigation popup text. [1]…
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Python Wikipedia Library does not find requested page eventhough it exists

So I want to search the wikipedia database for some keywords and then extract the text that the relative pages have to then use for a tf-idf module to later on implement in a text classification program. I am currently looping through a pandas…
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how to fetch a wikipedia geosearch with a correct origin?

I want to add a "wikipedia-geosearch" feature to my interactive map. Here is the simplest code for that operation, first attempt: const buildWikiGeoSearch = (cn, rd, [lon,lat]) => …
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How to get main article for a category using wikipedia dumps?

Main article for category Given any category, I need to get the main article for the same if it exists.
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ValueError: Either a title or a pageid must be specified

The code displayed below is giving me a ValueError, explaining I need a title or pagid specified. I have checked the code over and over and do not see a problem. Please let me know if you have any idea what I am doing wrong. This code is meant to…
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Get timestamp from Wikipedia API in Python

I'm trying to get the timestamp from the Wikipedia-api and split it in format (y-m-d), but still can not find a way around to do that. import requests S = requests.Session() URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?" PARAMS = { …
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Google gives relevant wiki images than Wiki Api

Below is the wiki api which gives relevant images from…
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Can't display data Fetched from the internet in Flutter using http Wikipedia intro Api

import 'dart:async'; import 'dart:convert'; import 'package:flutter/material.dart'; import 'package:carousel_pro/carousel_pro.dart'; import 'package:http/http.dart' as http; class Home extends StatelessWidget { @override Widget…
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Parsing Wikipedia API with PHP

I have a PHP script that retrieves the JSON result from the Wikipedia API and stores it in $json variable, then I json decode it into $data:
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Taking an input from textbox and adding it the url endpoint in jquery get method

I am trying to add the search string to the api end point and attach it to the call back function. var searchString; $("document").ready(function(){ $.get( "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&format=json&search=" +…
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table = soup.find("table", { "class" : "infobox ww_ib ww_ib_1" }) is not working

I'm trying to parse the table given at this location: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz" The property table is identified as the class = infobox ww_ib ww_ib_1. I am expecting to obtain the values given in the table such as: 'Category, Oxide,…
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Javascript - Wikipedia API sends extract that contains weird encode

This is what I get from sending a GET request to the wikipedia API Norway (\u00a0(\u00a0listen); Norwegian: \u00a0Norge (Bokm\u00e5l) or \u00a0Noreg (Nynorsk); Northern Sami: Norga) Officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a sovereign state and…
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Getting "See also" section in a Wikipedia page

I want to get all the links in the "See also" section in a wikipedia article, but wikipedia API for python (Wikipedia documentation) doesn't provide those information. Even if I use "page" function to get the whole content of a page to extract the…
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