Is there a Wikipedia API?

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rbrayb picture rbrayb · Mar 9, 2009 · Viewed 269.1k times · Source

On my Wikipedia user page, I run a Wikipedia script that displays my statistics (number of pages edited, number of new pages, monthly activity, etc.).

I'd like to put this information on my blog.

Is there an API that would allow me to do something like this?

Answer

Ross picture Ross · Mar 9, 2009

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.

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