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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 value from deeply nested JSON file (Wikipedia API)

This is my first attempt, as a Go newbee, to access deeply nested values from a JSON file generated by the Wikipedia API using Go structs. Reading through all threads concerning Unmarshaling with Go didn't help much. Json sample file (extracted from…
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Why is try: except: not working for this particular line of code with python Wikipedia API?

i am trying to execute this very short code that took out from my bigger code because i was having problems with it. I was able to reproduce the problem (it gave the exact same error). BACKGROUND INFO: i am just trying to get the first sentence out…
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How to get this json data by using javascript?

I am currently working on a telegram bot, and I want to add a function that can search Wikipedia, and I want to know how to get the 'extract' part without knowing the pageid from this wiki API that I fetch from URL? For example this one:…
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Fetch API results from Wikipedia

I must write a code which will take info from Wikipedia, and I wrote this: function getInfo() { let search = "Teatr Wielki"; fetch("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?&origin=*&action=opensearch&search=" + search + "&limit=5", { …
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Accessing and scraping sporadically available Wikipedia sections

I need to fetch some data but I'm completely stumped after trying a few things. I want to access Airlines & Destinations from the Albuquerque_International_Sunport's wiki page - keep in mind, I'll be going through a prepopulated list of airports…
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How to download Egyptian Arabic articles from Wikipedia

I am a researcher and I need to download many ( or all) the Egyptian dialect pages in Wikipedia? I am totally new to this. any help please
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Pywikibot MediaWiki Query API

I have a data dump of Wikipedia articles listed only by their pageid, and I am hoping to filter them by namespace. It would be relatively easy to write some python (probably using the requests module) to call the MediaWiki Query API, to query for…
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Consuming Wikipedia API by Universal App Windows 10 C#

I'm newbie in C# and I have no idea how to consume a JSON from an API. I would like to get this JSON:…
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PageRank - How is a link defined?

I am trying to learn more about the PageRank algorithm. I have a task to implement a wikipedia search engine implementation using PageRank. I wanted to know how a links are defined. So if Page A has a hyperlink in the wiki article to Page B, is that…
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Trouble with JQuery $.getJSON and Wikipedia API

So I'm trying to access the Wikipedia API for a Free Code Camp project. I tried using the standard Ajax interface, and it didn't work - I tried using .getJSON, and I still can't get it to work. The problem isn't my buttons, or the link, or the…
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Is there any possibility to get the plain (MediaWiki-markup) source instead of HTML source of Wikipedia-pages via API?

As I asked above, I want to get the plain Wikipedia/Mediawiki-markup via the API instead of the HTML source code. If I try this I get the HTML source of the section and of course I've already read the documentation of the Mediawiki API but didn't…
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Get wikipedia city info

Get city information from wikipedia, and show it on an Android APP. However, every time I try to transform the data to JSON, throws an…
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How to determine if 2 pages are of the same topic but in different languages?

I'm importing wiki pages based on their pageid (or url). Lest's say I've imported a page and I've stored, among others, its language (i.e EN). If I'm to import a translated page of the above EN version, by receiving only a new pageid (or url), how…
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Getting Wikipedia Page Titles in Json

So I'm trying to get all the title links from a wikipedia page. I've successfully loaded the page in but I'm having trouble going through the JSON to get the titles. Here's the code I'm using. Can someone help? $.ajax({ url:…
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For a given wikipedia article, find all wikipedia articles containing hyperlink to the input article in the text

Let me try to explain my problem: For a Wikipedia article url, Let's say Yann LeCun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun), I would like to retrieve URLs of wikipedia articles that contains a word with this hyperlink. In this case, for example,…
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