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How to get the page title from Wikipedia page URL?

I'm trying to create a system where the user will input their Wikipedia page link, and the application will get the page title from Wikipedia page URL.

Like, if the user gives: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem, I want to get the page title Eminem.

Or if the user gives: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem#1992%E2%80%931997:_Awal_karier,_Infinite_dan_masalah_keluarga, I want the page title, which is Eminem

I've tried finding a regex pattern. I'm thinking about what if I could create/ find a regex pattern that would find words that sit between /wiki/ and ends with a /. So far didn't found any way to do that.

So what can I do? What other options I have?

Solution

  • this would partly work: /(?<=https?:\/\/..\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki\/).+(?=\/(.+)?|#)/ It doesn't work without a / at the end though.