You can use 'categorymembers' as a generator, and use 'prop=categoryinfo' to display information about whether each category is hidden. You can't use this to filter the results, but you can do that in your application code and it still saves a lot of extra queries.

Example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&prop=categoryinfo&generator=categorymembers&formatversion=2&gcmtitle=Category%3AWikipedia_article_cleanup&gcmtype=subcat&gcmlimit=max

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Max Vlasov <max.vlasov@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

my software uses sub- and super- category enumeration while trying to avoid hidden categories. There's no problem with sub- (?action=query&prop=categories&titles=....&clshow=!hidden), but there's no corresponding parameter for super-categories ( ?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle= ... ). Is there a way to avoid contradictory states when both are used? Or maybe to achieve hidden avoiding for super-categories some other way?

I asked about this four years ago, but not at the list (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ra34est5vsl7fxdc), no answers at the time, probably something changed since then or someone would give me some workaround

Thanks in advance,

Max

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