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Retrieving the Interlanguage links from an exported Wikipedia article?

I used to retrieve the interlanguage links from an exported Wikipedia article by parsing the export with some regular expressions.

In phase 1 of the WikiData project these links have been moved to a separate page on Wikidata.

For example the article Ore Mountains has no language links anymore in the export. The language links are now on Q4198.

How can I export the language links?

Solution

  • I changed from using the export to the API. You can retrieve the interwikilanguage links with the property "langlinks", like this:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Ore%20Mountains&prop=langlinks