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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 I get the principal image from MediaWiki API?

Hello I'm using Curl to get information from Wikipedia,and I want to receive only information about the principal image,I don't want to receive all images of an article.. For example.. If I want to get info about all images of the English Language…
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Wikipedia API: how to retrieve multiple titles AND resolve redirects in 1 call?

It appears from the MediaWiki API:Query page that you can only resolve a redirect one at a time. The document even says "The example below isn't really useful because it doesn't use any query modules, but shows how the redirects parameter…
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What is the best way to parse Wikipedia markup in PHP?

I'm trying to parse specific Wikipedia content in a structured way. Here's an example page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear I'm having some success. I can detect that this page is a "specie" page, and I can also parse the Taxobox (on the…
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How to get the number of languages a Wikipedia page is available in? (SPARQL query)

I'm trying to have a list of Italian books from the 1980 on and the number of Wikipedia pages their original Wikipedia page has been translated into, for instance I would like to have: Book, number The name of the Rose, 5 Where 5 is the number of…
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Trying to retrieve the first image on Wikipedia pages using Wikipedia API - isn't working specifically for articles on video games?

I am attempting to retrieve box art for video game titles from Wikipedia using a GET query and the Wikipedia API. I am using the below query string which seems to be working fine for any other article, such as for the article about the…
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Get more general Category from the Category of a Wikipedia page

I'm using Python wikipedia library to obtain the list of the categories of a page. I saw it's a wrapper of MediaWiki API. Anyway I'm wondering how to generalize the categories to marco categories, like these Main topic classifications. For example…
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How to use Wikipedia API to find specific person in the page lists about people with the same name

Let's say I have a list of Astronauts and I want to display their biographies using Wikipedia API. So far I've tried this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=wikitext&page=Nick%20Hague Works as expected. But take a look at…
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Inlinks and outlinks for a Wikipedia page in python

I am using the Wikipedia API for python to get page links as follows: import wikipedia ny = wikipedia.page(wikipedia.search("Barack Obama")[0]) print ny.links This ny.links provides all the links (inlinks and outlinks together), but I need them…
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Searching for files in Wikimedia / Wikipedia

I'm trying to search for specific file types in Wikimedia commons API with not much of luck. Current status: I'm currently able to fetch images with jpeg, png, svg formats normally using this query…
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How to get IMDb ID for some film article from the Russian Wikipedia?

I'm collecting data about some films in Russian and, using Wikipedia API, I can query data about required film in JSON format: https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=%s where %s is a title…
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Wikipedia API and SPARQL in a single query

I need to search for Wikipedia pages that contain some specific words in their full text. To improve the results I want to limit the results to pages describing entities that are instances of a specific entity. For searching the full text I can use…
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How to use Wikipedia API to get page statistics for all pages in a Category?

I am looking to identify the most popular pages in a Wikipedia Category (for example, which graph algorithms had the highest page views in the last year?). However, there seems to be little up-to-date information of Wikipedia APIs, especially for…
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MediaWiki api - get last changes

How can i get the list of all pages, that were changed since some date using mediawiki api? EDIT: I have already found this query:) F.e. for wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rclimit=500&rcnamespace=0
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How to reliably get the image used in the Wikipedia Infobox?

How do I (reliably) get the main image(s) used in the Wikipedia Infobox from the API? This question has been asked before and the accepted answer admits that it is just a guess. Subsequent answers seem like a hack, at best and don't return the…
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How to get title of landmark place from Wikipedia by API?

For my code I am using the Wikipedia API which provides links to all places that are linked with the Wikipedia article of that city. But with my code there are some extra unnecessary links. I want to only return links where the type is…
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