Top "Wikipedia-api" questions

Related to the use of the MediaWiki API on Wikipedia.

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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How to get Wikipedia content using Wikipedia's API?

I want to get the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. What is the API query to do so?

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Get Text Content from mediawiki page via API

I'm quite new to MediaWiki, and now I have a bit of a problem. I have the title of some …

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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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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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Accessing main picture of wikipedia page by API

Is there any way I can access the thumbnail picture of any wikipedia page by using an API? I mean …

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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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Is there any API in Java to access wikipedia data

I want to know: is there any API or a query interface through which I can access Wikipedia data?

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How can I get the Infobox from a Wikipedia article by the MediaWiki API?

Wikipedia articles may have Infobox templates. By the following call I can get the first section of an article which …

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