Is there a Wikipedia API? - Stack Overflow
MediaWiki's API is running on Wikipedia (docs). You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself. More information. answered Mar 9, 2009 at 19:08. Ross.
How can I get Wikipedia content using Wikipedia's API?
Aug 25, 2011 · See this section in the MediaWiki API documentation, specifically involving getting the contents of the page. ...
Limits of the Wikipedia API - Stack Overflow
Update 2024. They created a new page called Rate limits. As of November 2024 following limits are specified, API requests without an access token are limited to 500 requests per hour per IP address. API requests authenticated using a personal API token are limited to 5,000 requests per hour. OAuth 2.0 authenticated API requests are limited to ...
json - Wikipedia API - get random page (s) - Stack Overflow
I'm trying to get a JSON result with a set of random pages from Wikipedia, including their titles, content and images. I've played around with their API sandbox, and so far the best I've got is t...
How to access Wikipedia from R? - Stack Overflow
May 23, 2011 · Use the RCurl package for retreiving info, and the XML or RJSONIO packages for parsing the response. If you are behind a proxy, set your options. opts <- list(. proxy = "136.233.91.120", proxyusername = "mydomain\\myusername", proxypassword = 'whatever', proxyport = 8080. ) Use the getForm function to access the API.
python - How to get plain text out of Wikipedia - Stack Overflow
Here are a few different possible approaches; use whichever works for you. All my code examples below use requests for HTTP requests to the API; you can install requests with pip install requests if you have Pip.
How to get clean json from wikipedia API - Stack Overflow
Feb 20, 2021 · 1. If you want plain text without markup, you have first to parse the JSON object and then extract the text from the HTML code: let tempDiv = document.createElement("div"); tempDiv.innerHTML = html; return tempDiv.textContent || tempDiv.innerText || ""; const html = data['parse']['text']; const plainText = htmlToText(html);
Is there a Wikipedia API just for retrieve the content summary?
Since 2017 Wikipedia provides a REST API with better caching. In the documentation you can find the following API which perfectly fits your use case (as it is used by the new Page Previews feature).
What is wikipedia pageid? how to change it into real page url?
May 29, 2011 · I'm studying the wikipedia API, some demo api call What is the pageid? How do I change it into a real page url? I mean <page pageid="18630637" ns="0" title="Translation" />, how to change
Wikipedia API + Cross-origin requests - Stack Overflow
Yo, thanks! I'm working the the same project and was in a pickle in regards to CORS with the Wiki API. For some reason when I read this: "The MediaWiki API also requires that the origin be supplied as a request parameter" I didn't realize I just had to do just as you pointed out.