On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 7:02 AM Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen <geilfeldt(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Mediawiki-api mailing listers!
I'm trying to get the intro to a list of Wikipedia pages using the
"extracts" property with "exintro=True". This works fine for most
sites,
but for a few of them the API returns an empty extract field. See for
example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&title…
When looking at the page "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem" there
definitely seems to be text before the first section, so I think I should
be getting something. Indeed without the "exintro" parameter, I get the
expected return.
Any idea why this occurs?
"exintro" assumes that the first heading tag (<h1> to <h6>)
indicates the
end of the intro. In the HTML of that page, the {{TOC_Right}} causes the
table of contents to be before the visible text, and the table of contents
includes an <h2>, so it chops it off there.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation