Mediawiki-api June 2020

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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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badrevids by querying API error
by Larry D'Agostino 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

I'm looking into the Wikiloop Battlefield data http://battlefield.wikiloop.org/feed/mix and trying to query the data via the API using revision id. My attempts appear to return with "badrevids". Am i using the API incorrectly? Here is my sample python code... import requests S = requests.Session() URL = "https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php" PARAMS = { "action": "query", "prop": "revisions", "revids": 961090023, "rvprop": "ids|timestamp|user|comment|content", "rvslots": "main", "formatversion": "2", "format": "json" } R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS) DATA = R.json() PAGES = DATA["query"] for page in PAGES: print(page)

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Planned removal of api_urls field in /page/summary endpoint
by Adam Baso 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

This message is a notice about forthcoming removal of a response field in the REST API’s /page/summary endpoint. [1] This message was posted to wikitech-l and is being cross-posted on mediawiki-api-announce. The endpoint is used in the Page Previews (“hovercards”) functionality on the classic web (desktop) and Android & iOS experiences for Wikipedia, in addition to numerous external experiences. We don't anticipate impacts on the mainline Wikipedia experiences from this forthcoming field removal, as the endpoint will still be operational. The REST API's /page/summary endpoint provides an api_urls field in its response with links to several other REST API endpoints supported by the Page Content Service. Three of the api_urls subfields refer to experimental endpoints that have been removed from the REST API altogether in favor of newer API endpoints. 1. media (/page/media) 2. references (/page/references) 3. metadata (/page/metadata). api_urls also contains subfields referring to stable endpoints that continue to exist in the REST API: 1. summary (which is self referential) 2. edit_html (/page/html - the Parsoid HTML) 3. talk_html (/page/html/Talk:<title> - the Parsoid HTML for the corresponding Talk page) Wikimedia’s Product Infrastructure team intends to remove the api_urls field of the /page/summary response. A cursory review at https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/ and Wikimedia Git mirrors suggests api_urls isn’t in use in consuming code. Review of web logs suggests traffic for the following endpoints: - The media endpoint is at about 5% of its original traffic before its decommission and it appears to be from old Wikipedia for Android clients. This is expected. - The references endpoint’s Wikipedia for Android traffic does not seem present and its other traffic appears to be from non-user application software based on User-Agent header components. -The metadata endpoint’s traffic seems to have all but stopped. This change is being announced in advance of the change because the endpoint is advertised as stable. [2] Please update your clients if you rely on the presence of the api_urls field. If this change poses a problem for your clients, please do let us know as soon as possible at the tracking task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247991 We plan to remove the api_urls field described here on or after 14 July 2020. Thank you. Adam Baso Director of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/Page%20content/get_page_summary__tit… [2] Refer to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_versioning#End_point_stability and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product/Wikimedia_Product_Infrastr… for more information on stability designations. _______________________________________________ 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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tpt-target-page : how to anticipate it for API:Edit ?
by Nicolas Vervelle 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Hello, I'm trying to add Meta as a wiki in my tool, WPCleaner. Meta has differences with the usual languages wikis, like the fact that a page can have translations. Such translations are handled by Extension:Translate, which prevents updating the translated pages through API:Edit (getting error tpt-target-page when trying to update such page). How can I know before using API:Edit that it will not work? If possible, when retrieving basic information about the page (like API:Query:Info). My need is to skip such pages (avoid getting their content and working on them) for the moment. Nico

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Fetch swimmer data
by Vladimir Dabic 08 Jun '20

08 Jun '20

Hi, I'm having some trouble when I try to fetch data for swimmers. When I do allpages request ( https://wiki.swimrankings.net/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&format=json) I get only some 4 non-important pages There are no pages like rankingDetail that could contain the data. I can't even get those pages to see if data can be extracted from them. If you look, for example, parse request for Main_Page: https://wiki.swimrankings.net/api.php?action=parse&page=Main_Page&prop=text… you can see that it returns HTML content There are no other pages except these 4 pages above so I cannot fetch any swimmer's data. Can I somehow get data for individual swimmers... ? Vladimir

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