On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 7:02 AM Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mediawiki-api mailing listers! > > I'm trying to get the intro to a list of Wikipedia pages using the > "extracts" property with "exintro=True". This works fine for most sites, > but for a few of them the API returns an empty extract field. See for > example: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=Anthem&exintro=True > > When looking at the page "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem"; there > definitely seems to be text before the first section, so I think I should > be getting something. Indeed without the "exintro" parameter, I get the > expected return. > > Any idea why this occurs? > "exintro" assumes that the first heading tag (<h1> to <h6>) indicates the end of the intro. In the HTML of that page, the {{TOC_Right}} causes the table of contents to be before the visible text, and the table of contents includes an <h2>, so it chops it off there. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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