Aug 25, 2011 · I want to get the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. What is the API query to do so?

MediaWiki's API is running on Wikipedia (docs). You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself. More information.

I need just to retrieve the first paragraph of a Wikipedia page. Content must be HTML formatted, ready to be displayed on my website (so no BBCode, or Wikipedia special code!)

May 23, 2024 · 1 I want to find a way to get the contents of a Wikipedia article on a specific date. For example, I'd like to see an article in the version it was on January 1 2022.

Actually, the Wikipedia JSON API works with a right query only, so I recommend to use the Wikipedia search and crawl the actual article and parse it with Beautiful Soup.

I'm trying to get a JSON result with a set of random pages from Wikipedia, including their titles, content and images. I've played around with their API sandbox, and so far the best I've got is t...

Aug 15, 2025 · To close voters, please note that this is asking how to do something via an API, so it is absolutely a question about programming that is on-topic here.

How does the Wikipedia API work, and how the endpoints are created? Is the Wikipedia API the same as other APIs or has special differences? I am trying to grab the introduction of a …

Here are a few different possible approaches; use whichever works for you. All my code examples below use requests for HTTP requests to the API; you can install requests with pip install …

Mar 16, 2011 · The stats.grok.se tool provides the pageview statistics of a particular page in wikipedia. Is there a method to use the wikipedia api to get the same information? What does …