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BlueSpud
BlueSpud

Reputation: 1623

Extracting Wikipedia Articles: Redirects?

I'm working on something that shows the raw data on a wikipedia page. I've got it working really well, but I've run into an issue with redirects. Sometimes when the app goes to the page, it says, "This is a redirect from a title that is <b>fully protected</b> from editing for any of several possible reasons. For more information follow the category link. <ul><li><b>Please do not replace these redirected links</b> with a link directly to the target page.", and obviously I don't want that.

This is the link that I'm using. (Queen Elizabeth for example) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extract&titles=Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom&format=xml

I tried adding &redirect=yes, but the page says that its an unrecognized parameter. I couldn't find anything on the internet, is there any way to do this? Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 125

Answers (1)

MaxSem
MaxSem

Reputation: 3547

It's redirects, also prop=extracts: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom&format=xml&redirects=1

Upvotes: 4

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