Thanks very much, and well spotted, Petr! I didn't notice.
Regards,
Mark
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[mailto:mediawiki-api-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Petr Onderka
Sent: 16 August 2012 13:24
To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Wikipedia external links API missing expected
results
If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neils_Bohr,
you'll notice that it's not the actual article, it's a redirect:
> (Redirected from Neils Bohr)
The actual article name (and the correct name of the physicist) is Niels Bohr.
And, as expected
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Niels%20Bohr&prop=extlinks&ellimit=max
shows you the external links.
Or, if you want to work with redirects, you can add "redirects" to your query
and it will work even with the incorrect name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Neils%20Bohr&prop=extlinks&ellimit=max&redirects
Petr Onderka
[[en:User:Svick]]
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Mark Robson <mark.rob...@kaspersky.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I’m trying to get the list of external links on pages.
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> I can do this with the API query command, thus:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Barack%20Obama&;
> prop=extlinks&ellimit=max
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> In this case, requesting Barack Obama’s links.
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> Also it works well with Einstein:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Albert%20Einste
> in&prop=extlinks&ellimit=max
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> However, another famous physicist, Neils Bohr, gives me nothing, even
> though looking at his article, there are several external links.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Neils%20Bohr&pr
> op=extlinks&ellimit=max
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> Do you know why this is? Is it a bug?
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> Regards
>
> Mark
>
>
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