Have you tried appening clshow=!hidden as shown under prop=categories (cl) * ?

I have used it in the past for a different query.

Thanks

Prateek

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Robert Crowe robert@ourwebhome.com wrote:

I'm querying the API to get the categories and subcategories for a page, and I'd like to be able to exclude hidden categories and administration categories from the result. The queries that I currently use look like this:****

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Category Pages:****

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Category:$catname&...

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Non-Category Pages:****

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=$pagename&prop=t...

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where $catname and $pagename are replaced by the page titles. Is there a way to either exclude categories that are hidden categories, or that are subcategories of the "Category:Hidden categories" category?****

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Thanks,****

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Robert****

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