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'''GET/POST request''' to parse content of a page and obtain the output.

== API documentation == 
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== Example 1: Parse content of a page == 

=== GET request === 
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=== Response === 
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<syntaxhighlight lang="json">
{
"parse": {
"title": "Pet door",
"pageid": 3276454,
"revid": 852892138,
"text": {
"*": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\"><div class=\"thumb tright\"><div class=\"thumbinner\" style=\"width:222px;\"><a href=\"/wiki/File:Doggy_door_exit.JPG\" class=\"image\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Doggy_door_exit.JPG/220px-Doggy_door_exit.JPG\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" class=\"thumbimage\" srcset=\"//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Doggy_door_exit.JPG/330px-Doggy_door_exit.JPG 1.5x,
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}
}
}
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== Sample code == 
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/Sample code 1}}

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== Example 2: Parse a section of a page and fetch its table data == 

=== GET request === 
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=== Response === 
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<syntaxhighlight lang="json">
{
"parse": {
"title": "Wikipedia:Unusual articles/Places and infrastructure",
"pageid": 38664530,
"wikitext": {
"*": "===Antarctica===\n\n{| class=\"wikitable\"\n|-\n| '''[[Emilio Palma]]'''\n| An Argentine national who is the first person known to be born on the continent of Antarctica.\n|-\n| '''[[Scouting in the Antarctic]]'''\n| Always be prepared for glaciers and penguins.\n|}"
}
}
}
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=== Sample code === 
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#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
parse_wikitable.py

MediaWiki Action API Code Samples
Demo of `Parse` module: Parse a section of a page, fetch its table data and save
it to a CSV file

MIT license
"""

import csv
import requests

S = requests.Session()

URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"

TITLE = "Wikipedia:Unusual_articles/Places_and_infrastructure"

PARAMS = {
'action': "parse",
'page': TITLE,
'prop': 'wikitext',
'section': 5,
'format': "json"
}

def get_table():
""" Parse a section of a page, fetch its table data and save it to a CSV file
"""
res = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS)
data = res.json()
wikitext = data['parse']['wikitext']['*']
lines = wikitext.split('|-')
entries = []

for line in lines:
line = line.strip()
if line.startswith("|"):
table = line[2:].split('||')
entry = table[0].split("|")[0].strip("'''[[]]\n"), table[0].split("|")[1].strip("\n")
entries.append(entry)

file = open("places_and_infrastructure.csv", "w")
writer = csv.writer(file)
writer.writerows(entries)
file.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
get_table()

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== Possible errors == 
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{| class="wikitable"
|+
! <translate> Code</translate>
! <translate> Info</translate>
|-
|missingtitle
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|-
|nosuchsection
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|pagecannotexist
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|-
|invalidparammix
|<nowiki/>
*
*
*
|}

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== Parameter history == 
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* v1.45: <translate> Introduced <tvar name=1><code>parser</code></tvar></translate>
* v1.43: <translate> Introduced <tvar name=1><code>usearticle</code></tvar></translate>
* v1.38: <translate> Introduced <tvar name=1><code>showstrategykeys</code></tvar></translate>
* v1.32: <translate> Deprecated <tvar name=1><code>disabletidy</code></tvar></translate>
* v1.31: <translate> Introduced <tvar name=1><code>disablestylededuplication</code></tvar></translate>
* v1.30: <translate> Introduced <tvar name=1><code>revid</code>, <code>useskin</code>, <code>wrapoutputclass</code></tvar></translate>

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== See also == 
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*[[API:Parsing wikitext/TOCData]]
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''Sample content adapted from [[mediawikiwiki:API:Parsing_wikitext]] on mediawiki.org, licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0].''

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