I'm currently trying to read the content of a MediaWiki site for which I only know only a generic URL which would redirect me to the 'real' content:
e.g when I want to read the explainxkcd content for comic 2423, I can use 2423 as a title and request
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&formatversion=2&format=json&titles=2423
Which gives me
{
"batchcomplete": true,
"query": {
"pages": [
{
"pageid": 23828,
"ns": 0,
"title": "2423",
"revisions": [
{
"contentformat": "text/x-wiki",
"contentmodel": "wikitext",
"content": "#REDIRECT [[2423: Project Orion]]"
}]}]}}
I can now parse 2423: Project Orion from "#REDIRECT [[2423: Project Orion]]" and manually turn it into titles=2423:_Project_Orion giving me
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=2423:_Project_Orion
But this feels strange and uselessly manual. Unfortunately I'm not so much into MediaWiki or web APIs in general - can you give me a hint how I should come from
2423 (a generic index I know)
to
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=2423:_Project_Orion (the URL I want to query)
without having to manually synthesize the title from the MediaWiki answer?
Add &redirects=1 to your query string:
redirects: Automatically resolve redirects in query+titles, query+pageids, and query+revids, and in pages returned by query+generator.
Type: boolean (details)