For this tutorial, you will need to install Pythonand install the requests package. Alternatively, you may want to experiment with Wikipedia API sandboxthat provides a UI to send r… See more

In this article, we will look at two of the possible actions of the API: 1. query: allows to fetch information about a wiki and the data stored in it. 2. parse: allows to parse the actual … See more

To call the Wikipedia API, append the needed parameters to the endpoint, just like the example below: … See more

To get the abstract from a Wikipedia page, use the action parameter along with the titles, the prop=extracts, exintro and explaintextparameters. The format parameter l… See more