Mediawiki-api August 2011

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How to expand templates, but leave comments
by Kevin Dunn 20 Jan '26

20 Jan '26

Hi there, I'm using the API to extract the raw wiki text from my pages, using the "?action=query&titles=Main_Page&export&exportnowrap" syntax. That works perfectly. Now I would like to get the templates expanded out in the result, so I use: "?action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=revisions&rvlimit=1&rvprop=content&rvexpandtemplates", which does the job, as expected, but it also strips out the comments. My problem is that the comments are meaningful to me (I use them to help process the wiki text in subsequent steps). Is there a way to expand templates with the API, but leave the comments intact? Thanks, Kevin

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Need to extract abstract of a wikipedia page
by aditya srinivas 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

Hello, I am writing a Java program to extract the abstract of the wikipedia page given the title of the wikipedia page. I have done some research and found out that the abstract with be in rvsection=0 So for example if I want the abstract of 'Eiffel Tower" wiki page then I am querying using the api in the following way. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Eiffel… and parse the XML data which we get and take the wikitext in the tag <rev xml:space="preserve"> which represents the abstract of the wikipedia page. But this wiki text also contains the infobox data which I do not need. I would like to know if there is anyway in which I can remove the infobox data and get only the wikitext related to the page's abstract Or if there is any alternative method by which I can get the abstract of the page directly. Looking forward to your help. Thanks in Advance Aditya Uppu

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org
by Roan Kattouw 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Per the below, protocol-relative URLs are now enabled on test.wikipedia.org and will be rolled out to the rest of the wikis over the course of the next few weeks. What this means is that URLs used in the interface will now look like //example.com instead of http://example.com , so we can support both HTTP and HTTPS without splitting our cache. The API, in most cases, will not output protocol-relative URLs, but will continue to output http:// URLs no matter whether you call it over HTTP or HTTPS. This is because we don't expect API clients to be able to resolve these correctly, and that the context of these URLs (which is needed to resolve them) will frequently get lost along the way. And we don't wanna go breaking clients, now, do we? :) The exceptions to this, as far as I am aware, are: * HTML produced by the parser will have protocol-relative URLs in <a href="..."> tags etc. * prop=extlinks and list=exturlusage will output URLs verbatim as they appear in the article, which means they may output protocol-relative URLs If you are getting protocol-relative URLs in some other place, that's probably a bug (or maybe it's intentional and I forgot to list it here), so please let me know, or e-mail this list, or file bug, if you see that happening. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan Lane <rlane32(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:55 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Over the past couple days Roan Kattouw and I have been pushing out changes to enable protocol-relative URL support. We've gotten to a point where we think it is stable and working. We've enabled this on test.wikipedia.org, and plan on running it for two weeks before enabling it elsewhere. Please test if everything is working properly, especially with regards to the API and bots. Report bugs in bugzilla if any are found. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list Mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce

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Using the API for displaying HTML-Page-Content
by DaSch 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hello, I'm hardly trying to get the main content of a page through the API printed as an one page. The point is that even when not intentionaly prining the output I get the whole array with title etc. but I only want the HTML, not more. That's the script I wrote this way <?php $ch = curl_init(); $url = "http://www.wecowi.de/api.php?action=parse&page=Hilarie_Burton&prop=text&for mat=txt"; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_exec($ch); $textarray = explode( $ch , "=>" ); curl_close($ch); ?> Which prints the array although there is no print. Is there any option to get only get the HTML or which of the four php outputs is the best to get a result that can be reperated and be used for such a task? Thanks DaSch

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Get Image Attribution
by Sethi, Parampreet 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi All, We are trying to get Image Attribution from Mediawiki. Is there a way to get Image Attribution without doing the Page scraping (url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madonna_by_David_Shankbone.jpg )? In case the only way is to do page scraping and someone has already written the code for page scraping attribution that will be very helpful. Thanks in advance! Param

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problem with accents while using API.php on mediawiki
by Sylvain GOUJON 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hi everybody, I ask here for help. Hope this is the right place. I searched for issues for my problem on the web but unsuccesfully at time. I have installed a mediawiki and use API.php in an ksh script with curl to update my wiki It works fine except for accents. I have realised many tests but no one succeed. exemple of the probleme . I have this character. "Cette page est mise � jour automatiquement" I have n problem with accent when I update the page normally" Do you have an idea for my problem ? Charset? here is the curl request i send curl --dump-header headers.txt --progress-bar -g --header "Accept-Language: fr;Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8;Connection: Keep-Alive" --user-agent "test/upload" -b ${COOKIES_FILE} -c ${COOKIES_FILE} -d "format=xml&action=edit&title=${PAGE2EDIT}&text=$(cat ${WIKITABLE 2IMPORT})&token=${EDIT_TOKEN}" ${WIKI_URL}/api.php the wiki is not visible on internet. intranet use ;o( Sorry for my poor english. I am french and have lot problems with these accents!

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Image API call
by Sethi, Parampreet 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hi All, Is there a wiki API call available using which I can download the image and corresponding attribution in one API call? For example, for this image http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madonna_by_David_Shankbone.jpg, I need to fetch the actual Image and meta data information. Thanks Param

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Is it possible using the API to determine whether a revision was reverted?
by Jordan Malof 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

Hello Everyone, Is it possible using the API to determine whether a particular editors revision was reverted? Thanks! Jordan

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Inter-wiki api call
by Sreejith K. 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Hi, We are trying to show the number of files in a Commons category[1] at a page in meta[2], but we are not sure how to make interwiki calls as most browsers block it. * [1] - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:India_loves_Wikipedia_event * [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Wiki_Outreach#Indi… Any lead in this direction will be appreciated. Thanks, Sreejith K.

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How to search for results and get the title
by Dalkandura Arachchige Gunaratna 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hi, I want to search Wikipedia and get first search result (in fact only the title of the result). Could someone tell me what is the API call that I need to use in MediaWiki API? I tried "query" and "opensearch" calls but they didn't return the results I expected. They didn't return any search result. The title I used was "Anatomical structure". The requirement is that I need to access (get) the title of the first search result. Kalpa Gunaratna

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