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How to get all Wikipedia article titles with MediaWiki API?

I know you can get all titles from Wikipedia's Database dump and that you can query for specific titles, but how can you get them all through the MediaWiki API?

Solution

  • For that you would use the Allpages API:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=allpages&aplimit=max

    You will not get all at once but up to 500 at a time and then a continuation marker which you can use for next batch of titles. Continue this until the JSON does not have query-continue in the beginning of the answer.