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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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extract an URL from a JSON response of wikipedia api

I need to extract the URL of an image from a JSON response (maybe I could put it in a variable). I read this page on the MediaWiki API help I follow this example to get the information about images on a…
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How do I change a string into valid wikipedia page name?

I want to take a phrase like "banana tree" and send it directly to a wikipedia url like "Banana_tree". I know it has to follow the rules as outlined (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_name). Is there a JavaScript package that…
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How to continue to call Wikipedia API the 500 limit?

I am running the following, and I notice that after 500, it stops, I would like it to run again starting from the next index in order to carry on searching: var a = 0;…
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how to retrieve author's name from Wikipedia API?

I'm getting a JSON with all the text but what I need is just the key info for this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit (author's name, type of site, logo of the publication, etc.) Can I add any props to this string?…
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Wikipedia API extract returning Edit Link in Text

I am attempting to pull the json from the wikipedia API. When I extract the main content it shows up on my page but the edit links show up next to the

header. I've included the param "disableeditsection": false, as both true and false but to…

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how to change language of retrieved content using language api in wikipedia?

I want two api call one for content and the other one for language change.
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Wikipedia API Hello World not working?

The following simple code isn't working for Wikipedia API. I'm not sure why. html:
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Script: function doThis() { var wikiUrl =…
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Wikipedia API for personal website

If I search any keyword on Google like "Sesame oil" it shows content from wiki at right side. Those details are informative for users. I wanted to know, is there any API provided by WikiPedia which I can use as well? So that if any user search for…
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PHP: Unable to echo values from nested Array in PHP

I want to echo data which is in JSON format. I converted from JSON to PHP array using json_decode() but it is not getting echoed. Blow is my code:
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Removing Non English Sub headings and Paragraphs

Hi I have a script which is able to remove subheadings and paragraphs but I am not able to remove paragraphs with non english subheadings and words. For example, (Original Text): === Personal finance === Protection against unforeseen personal…
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Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'foo' of undefined

I'm doing a project with the wikipedia media API. I'm querying the API using Jquery. The following request works when checking the developper console in Chrome as seen in this codepen http://codepen.io/jowze/pen/NNZNKY/?editors=1010 $.ajax({ …
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Get wikipedia categories title with getJSON

I'm trying to retrieve the title's categories from JSON data. For example: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Albert%20Einstein&prop=categories I tried something like this: var requestOnURL =…
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How to grab URL from Wikipedia by API?

I have list of company names. What I want to do is, to get their websites by company names. Let's say we want to grab "Website" from Microsoft Wikipedia page. The query below doesn't return this…
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Wikipedia Image list show from wikipedia xml api

I am trying to write a code in which I got as xml format for the first image api from wikipedia. Now I want to parse it through c#. But I cannot get the image while running code. here is my code. namespace WikiAPIWinForm { public partial class…
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How to use Wikipedia API to expand entities?

I'm working on my thesis and I encountered a problem i don't know hot to approach properly. I'm clustering tweets and given the few information they carry, I want to expand the entities I find in the text by accesing Wikipedia and taking the…
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