mediawiki-api Questions

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I'm studying Wikipedia REST API but I'm not able to find the right option to get also URLs for a search query. this is the URL of the request: http://it.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&l...
Jammiejammin asked 19/1, 2012 at 17:52

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Wikipedia articles may have Infobox templates. By the following call I can get the first section of an article which includes an Infobox. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&pa...
Converge asked 3/10, 2011 at 17:20

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We can get text extract of different pages in a single wiki api call by using pipe character ( | ). For eg : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&ex...
Southdown asked 11/6, 2015 at 10:7

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I'm trying to get all the content from Wikipedia:Unusual_articles and I'm able to get the list of table content by calling this endpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format...
Cratch asked 24/10, 2016 at 4:6

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Is there any .Net library to parse pages I've retrieved through the mediawiki api? A standard mediawiki parser that could just give titles and the data in pure data would be fine, but I would rathe...
Maurizio asked 5/12, 2011 at 23:38

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This is to populate a table with the amount of results that are returned from the MediaWiki API query /api.php?action=query&list=querypage&qppage=BrokenRedirects. The number of results is t...
Tamanaha asked 11/3, 2013 at 20:15

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I need to retrieve a list of all existing languages for a certain wiki project. For example, all Wikivoyage or all Wikipedia languages, just like on their landing pages. I prefer to do this via Me...
Statvolt asked 9/11, 2015 at 12:6

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When I perform full-text search with Wikipedia API, I can not narrow it to titles only (srwhat=title). So while search anywhere (default) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=...
Lampley asked 15/1, 2013 at 11:58

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It seems like the only way to get approval for a Bot account is if it adds to or edits information already on Wikimedia. If you try to download any images, without a bot account, using some of the ...
Praemunire asked 23/9, 2009 at 17:0

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I'm trying to find out if there's a Wikipedia API (I think it is related to the MediaWIki?). If so, I would like to know how I would tell Wikipedia to give me an article about the new york ya...
Galvanometer asked 8/6, 2009 at 11:29

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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=c...
Micromho asked 29/1, 2015 at 20:48

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I'm using they python requests library for the first time, and I am confused. When I run the function below in a for loop, with different base URLs, it appears to receive a response, but the conten...
Amberambergris asked 5/3, 2015 at 20:41

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I've installed Mediawiki v1.24.1 on my server which is running RHEL7. I've installed it under /var/www/foohelp/wiki. However, when I try to upload a file, I get the following error: [f3eae72a] /...
Coherent asked 16/1, 2015 at 2:41

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Trying to search tiles through the api using a generator. I notice that there are two possible generators, with both I have problems: prefix search - doesn't work well if I have multiple words an...
Ergotism asked 23/12, 2014 at 16:37

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I've been looking for a way to query the wikipedia api based on a search string for a list of articles with the following properties: Title Snippet/Description One or more images related to the a...
Jerrold asked 17/9, 2014 at 12:50

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Is it possible to get a list of all Wikipedia countries, regions and cities with relations between them? I couldn't find any API appropriate for this task. What is be the easiest way to parse all t...
Unbelievable asked 11/7, 2014 at 11:16

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How do I get a list of MediaWiki namespaces? Ideally with name and number.

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I would like to retrieve images from Wikimedia Commons to display on a map. This means that given a pair (latitude, longitude) I would like to find pictures around this point. After a day of search...

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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 arti...
Foolscap asked 20/10, 2011 at 4:32

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If I try to get the language links for a page on Wikipedia via their API like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=langlinks&format=json&lllimit=10&llurl=&...

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I'm trying to pull a random article from the WikiMedia API, but my code seems to only grab User talk pages... $(document).ready(function(){ $.getJSON("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=que...
Hbeam asked 23/11, 2013 at 6:52

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I'm currently in the process of trying to use the wikivoyage API. My current API call looks like: en.wikivoyage.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srwhat=text&srsearch=Pari&form...
Conscientious asked 23/8, 2013 at 4:46

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I administer a MediaWiki wiki that has been hit by a ton of spam. I've managed to get rid of the spam pages that have been added to the wiki by using an extension, but the pages' data is still pres...
Always asked 8/4, 2013 at 3:47

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I'm trying to find a comprehensive list of all images on wikipedia, which I can then filter down to the public domain ones. I've downloaded the SQL dumps from here: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwi...
Pallet asked 5/4, 2013 at 21:50

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I am developing an Android app that pulls information from a Wikia page and displays it in the app. I currently am pulling all Categories to navigate and have my app set up to display the page in a...
Kaitlin asked 28/3, 2013 at 13:9

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