API:Querypage - MediaWiki (original) (raw)

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GET request to get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.

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Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Querypage

Specific parameters:

qppage

The name of the special page. Note, this is case-sensitive.

This parameter is required.

One of the following values: Ancientpages, BrokenRedirects, Deadendpages, DisambiguationPageLinks, DisambiguationPages, DoubleRedirects, Fewestrevisions, GadgetUsage, GloballyWantedFiles, LintTemplateErrors, ListDuplicatedFiles, Listredirects, Lonelypages, Longpages, MediaStatistics, MostGloballyLinkedFiles, Mostcategories, Mostimages, Mostinterwikis, Mostlinked, Mostlinkedcategories, Mostlinkedtemplates, Mostrevisions, OrphanedTimedText, Shortpages, Uncategorizedcategories, Uncategorizedimages, Uncategorizedpages, Uncategorizedtemplates, UnconnectedPages, Unusedcategories, Unusedimages, Unusedtemplates, Unwatchedpages, Wantedcategories, Wantedfiles, Wantedpages, Wantedtemplates, Withoutinterwiki

qpoffset

When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.

Type: integer

Default: 0

qplimit

Number of results to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

In the below query, we call the API to get a list of the first ten pages which are uncategorized

{ "batchcomplete": "", "continue": { "continue": "-||", "qpoffset": 10 }, "query": { "querypage": { "cached": "", "cachedtimestamp": "2019-02-22T11:46:48Z", "maxresults": 5000, "name": "Uncategorizedpages", "results": [ { "ns": 0, "title": "Abelardo Delgado", "value": "0" }, { "ns": 0, "title": "Agriculture in Tonga", "value": "0" }, { "ns": 0, "title": "Andriandramaka", "value": "0" } ... ] } } }

#!/usr/bin/python3

""" get_querypage_list.py

MediaWiki API Demos
Demo of `Querypage` module: List first 10 pages which are uncategorized

MIT License

"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"

PARAMS = { "qplimit": "10", "action": "query", "qppage": "Uncategorizedpages", "list": "querypage", "format": "json" }

R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS) DATA = R.json()

QUERYPAGE = DATA['query']['querypage']['results']

for p in QUERYPAGE: print(str(p['title']))