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!)

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.

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 …

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...

Is there any way I can access the thumbnail picture of any wikipedia page by using an API? I mean the image on the top right side in box. Is there any APIs for that?

Nov 16, 2010 · It seems like there is no Wikipedia API for this, but this Wikipedia page describes how others make use of this information: All coordinates are available for download in …

As of August 2016, Wikipedia supports CORS requests by using the normal Ajax requests (no need of JSONP/callback manipulation). This can be done by setting the origin in the API call.

I have the title of some Wiki page, and I want to get just the text of a said page using api.php, but all that I have found in the API is a way to obtain the Wiki content of the page (with wiki markup).