On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Dmitry Talisman <dmitry.talisman@gmail.com> wrote:
While working on my app I came across an issue with extracts that does not work for certain pages. The extracts is always empty. For example (Newark International Airport):


I note the pageid you're specifying is a redirect page. If we use the target of the redirect instead, it seems to work fine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exchars=175&pageids=248492

You can even ask the API to bypass the redirect for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exchars=175&pageids=263652&redirects=1



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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation