Top "Wikipedia" questions

Consider the tags wikipedia-api (or the more general mediawiki-api) and mediawiki.

Is there a Wikipedia API?

On my Wikipedia user page, I run a Wikipedia script that displays my statistics (number of pages edited, number of …

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Is there a wikipedia API just for retrieve content summary?

I need just to retrieve first paragraph of a Wikipedia page. Content must be html formated, ready to be displayed …

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What is wikipedia pageid? how to change it into real page url?

I'm studying the wikipedia API, some demo api call What is the pageid? How do I change it into a …

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How to use wikipedia api if it exists?

I'm trying to find out if there's a wikipedia api (I Think it is related to the mediawiki?). If so, …

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Extract the first paragraph from a Wikipedia article (Python)

How can I extract the first paragraph from a Wikipedia article, using Python? For example, for Albert Einstein, that would …

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How to get plain text out of Wikipedia

I'd like to write a script that gets the Wikipedia description section only. That is, when I say /wiki bla …

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Searching Wikipedia using API

I want to search Wikipedia using the query action. I am using this url: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.…

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Wikipedia text download

I am looking to download full Wikipedia text for my college project. Do I have to write my own spider …

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Fetch a Wikipedia article with Python

I try to fetch a Wikipedia article with Python's urllib: f = urllib.urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?…

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Blacklist IP database

Is there an open database of blacklisted IP for the Web? With a lot of public web proxy you know... …

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