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How do I get the pageid from a Wikipedia page?

In a Flask app, or even better just using wikipedia APIs, how can I get the pageid from a Wikipedia url?

I mean from this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21721040

From the API sandbox I can work it out but only as a search from a title, not from a singular URL.

Said search example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&prop=pageprops&format=json&ppprop=wikibase_item&titles=Stack%20Overflow

Can I query for it in a more straightforward way and without resorting to a wikipedia search? I mean I already know the human readable url...

Solution

  • No, you cannot use URLs in the API, you need to use either page names or page ids to identify articles.

    Notice that the https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Stack%20Overflow you found is not a "search", it's just exactly the query to get you the page id from the title. Use it.