Wikipedia API

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Wikipedia API links

Title, Page ID for first set

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&aplimit=500&format=json&apdir=ascending&prop=revisions

Title, Page Id, subsequent

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&aplimit=500&format=json&apdir=ascending&apfrom=%22Cochise%22_(cyclist)&prop=revisions

Title, Pageid, Revision Id

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=50&format=json&prop=revisions&gapfrom=!!Fuck_you!!&gapdir=ascending&continue=

HTML

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=extracts&titles=London
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=parse&prop=text&pageid=47905

Plain text

https://en.wikipedia.org/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=extracts&explaintext=yes&titles=Kolkata

Wiki parsing

http://www.integratingstuff.com/2012/04/06/hook-into-wikipedia-using-java-and-the-mediawiki-api/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/master/includes/api/ApiQuery.php

API Details

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Ballrevisions
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allrevisions&arvdir=newer&arvend=2016-07-01%2000:00:00&arvprop=ids|timestamp&arvgeneratetitles=true