wikipedia api

• [[mediawiki]]
  • [[search]] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search pull
• [[example]]
  • search for pages using free form text
    • [[query]] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=popper pull
      • returns a query -> search array, of which the first item is high quality. ranking can be customized with parameters. the item contain a pageid, in this case 16623 for the page for Karl Popper.
  • retrieve URL for the pageid in question and additional external resources, extlinks
    • [[query]] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&pageids=16623&prop=extlinks|info&inprop=url pull