wikipedia-api

Anyone know how to get the number of revisions of a wikipedia page using mediawiki API? I have read this API documentation, but can't find the related API: Revision API The only possibility is to retrieve all revisions and count them. You might need to continue the query for that. Bug 17993 is about including a count, but is still unsolved. Here is code to get number of revisions of a page (in this case, the JSON wiki page ): import requests BASE_URL = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php" TITLE = 'JSON' parameters = { 'action': 'query', 'format': 'json', 'continue': '', 'titles': TITLE, 'prop':

I am trying to use the wikimedia API for wiki commons at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php It seems like the commons API is very immature and the part at their document that mentions the possibility to retrieve license and author information is empty. Is there anyway I can retrieve the paragraph that contains the information about the licensing using the API? (For example, the paragraph under the title "Licensing" at this page ). Of course I can download the whole page and try to parse it, but what are APIs for? Philippe Green Late answer but you can request the "extmetadata" data with

I'm looking to use JQuery to pull back contents of the Wikipedia infobox that contains company details. I think that I'm almost there but I just can't get the last step of the way var searchTerm="toyota"; var url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&page=" + searchTerm+"&redirects&prop=text&callback=?"; $.getJSON(url,function(data){ wikiHTML = data.parse.text["*"]; $wikiDOM = $(wikiHTML); $("#result").append($wikiDOM.find('.infobox').html()); }); The first part works - wikiHTML contains the content of the page, parsed by the Wikipedia API to HTML format This contains the

I used to retrieve the interlanguage links from an exported Wikipedia article by parsing the export with some regular expressions. In phase 1 of the WikiData project these links have been moved to a separate page on Wikidata. For example the article Ore Mountains has no language links anymore in the export. The language links are now on Q4198 . How can I export the language links? You are now encouraged to use the Wikidata aPI : http://wikidata.org/w/api.php For your case, use props=labels . This url is self explicative : http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&sites=enwiki

I'm studying Wikipedia REST API but I'm not able to find the right option to get also URLs for a search query. this is the URL of the request: http://it.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=calvino&format=xml&srprop=snippet this request outputs only the Title and the Snippet but no URLs for articles. I've checked wikipedia API documentation for the list=search query but seems there is no option to get also URLs. Best Regards, Fabio Buda You can form the URL of the article easily by yourself from the title. For the Italian Wikipedia, it's http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/