How to get the Infobox data from Wikipedia?
If I have the url to a page, how would I obtain the Infobox information on the right using MediaWiki webservices?
Answer
Use the Mediawiki API through this Python library: https://github.com/siznax/wptools
Usage:
import wptools
so = wptools.page('Stack Overflow').get_parse()
infobox = so.data['infobox']
print(infobox)
Output:
{'alexa': '{{Increase}} 34 ( {{as of|2019|12|15|lc|=|y}} )',
'author': '[[Jeff Atwood]] and [[Joel Spolsky]]',
'caption': 'Screenshot of Stack Overflow in February 2017',
'commercial': 'Yes',
'content_license': '[[Creative Commons license|CC-BY-SA]] 4.0',
'current_status': 'Online',
'language': 'English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Japanese',
'launch_date': '{{start date and age|2008|9|15}}',
'logo': 'Stack Overflow logo.svg',
'name': 'Stack Overflow',
'owner': '[[Stack Exchange]], Inc.',
'programming_language': '[[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]]',
'registration': 'Optional',
'screenshot': 'File:Stack Overflow homepage, Feb 2017.png',
'type': '[[Knowledge market]]',
'url': '{{URL|https://stackoverflow.com}}'}