wikipedia-api

I need to retrieve a list of all existing languages for a certain wiki project. For example, all Wikivoyage or all Wikipedia languages, just like on their landing pages. I prefer to do this via MediaWiki API , if it's possible. Thanks for your time. Approach 3: Using an API in the Wikimedia wiki farm and Extension:Sitematrix https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=sitematrix&smtype=language While this will return all wikis, the matrix knows about, it is easily filtered client side by code [as of now, one of: wiki (Wikipedia), wiktionary , wikibooks , wikinews , wikiquote , wikisource ,

I am trying to access a Wikipedia page so to get a list of pages, and get the following error: library(RCurl) u <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=tal&namespace=4" getURL(u) [1] "Scripts should use an informative User-Agent string with contact information, or they may be IP-blocked without notice.\n" I hope to get to that page through the Wikipedia api, but I am not sure it would work . And the thing is that other pages are read without problem, for example: u <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk" getURL(u) Any suggestions? Side note: In

Using PHP, is there a nice way to get the (parsed) introduction only from a wikipedia page? I have to current methods: The first is to call the api page and return, then call the Wiki parser on the introduction I have pulled from the first request (two requests, extracting the intro from the text isn't pretty either). The second is to call the entire page parser and use xpath to retrieve every <p> tag before the contents table. With both methods I then have to re-parse the HTML to ensure the relevant links inside the introduction link off to wikipedia. Neither are ideal really, there must be a

I have a list of articles and I want to find the main category of each article. Wikipedia lists its main categories here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Categories . I am able to find the subcategories of each article using: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=categories&titles=%s&format=xml I also am able to check whether a subcategory is within a category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Dog&prop=categories&clcategories=Domesticated animals&format=xml This will tell me whether "domesticated animals" is a subcategory of Dog, but this is not

Trying to search tiles through the api using a generator. I notice that there are two possible generators, with both I have problems: prefix search - doesn't work well if I have multiple words and the order is reversed in the query (for example "brian adams" would return an answer, however "adams brian" does not search - seems to not allow searching by titles, only by text which returns low-quality results. Anyone knows of a way around this? "srwhat=title" is disabled, so you should use "intitle:" in your search query: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=0

Hello I'm using Curl to get information from Wikipedia,and I want to receive only information about the principal image,I don't want to receive all images of an article.. For example.. If I want to get info about all images of the English Language ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language ) I should go to this URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=English_Language&prop=images but I receive flags of countries where people speak English in XML: <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <query> <normalized> <n from="English_language" to="English language" /> </normalized> <pages>