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Mohamed Khamis
Mohamed Khamis

Reputation: 8029

Getting the original link on Wikipedia?

I have some links to wikipedia articles, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_jobs when you visit that link, you will see right under the article's title: (Redirected from Steve jobs) If you follow that link you will eventually reach a page with the same URL except that Steve_jobs has a capital J for jobs. So it would look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

Is there a way I can retrieve the latter link using the first one?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 130

Answers (2)

Bergi
Bergi

Reputation: 664185

Just use the query api. With http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Steve+jobs|steve+jobs|steve+Jobs|Steve+Jobs&redirects you will get your titles normalized and redirected. See the api documentation for further options, especially the formats.

Upvotes: 0

svick
svick

Reputation: 244757

You can find out where does a certain title redirect to by API query like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Steve%20jobs&redirects

If you want the result in XML, add &format=xml to the URL, or &format=json for JSON.

Upvotes: 2

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