https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70492

Bug ID: 70492 Summary: Make Page.interwiki() use api instead of parsing the text Product: Pywikibot Version: core (2.0) Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: maarten@mdammers.nl Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: ---

In page.py in the Page object we have the following function: https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/pywikibot%2Fcore.git/aba68924c8221f111fa28ebd...

def interwiki(self, expand=True): """Iterate interwiki links in the page text, excluding language links.

@param expand: if True (default), include interwiki links found in templates transcluded onto this page; if False, only iterate interwiki links found in this page's own wikitext @type expand: bool

@return: a generator that yields Link objects """ # This function does not exist in the API, so it has to be # implemented by screen-scraping

The MediaWiki api now has the function "iwlinks" (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Iwlinks) that seems to do what we need. See for example https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=iwlinks&ti...

The interwiki() function should be reimplemented using the api.