- Introduction
- Wikipedia API provides access to MediaWiki data without user interface interaction
- Tutorial demonstrates Python usage without Wikipedia wrappers
- API supports two main actions: query and parse
- Main Features
- Query action fetches information about wikis and their data
- Parse action extracts HTML content from Wikipedia pages
- Search functionality available through srsearch parameter
- Links can be extracted using query action with pllimit parameter
- Advanced Features
- Sidebar and infobox links can be extracted using parse action
- Entities can be read through Dbpedia service
- Wikidata API provides broader data access than Wikipedia API
- Requests package required for API interactions
- Implementation
- Tutorial uses requests library for API requests
- Example code demonstrates various API actions and responses
- Outputs show extracted data in JSON format
- Tutorial includes links to related Python tutorials