What is wikipedia pageid? how to change it into real page url?

Excellent and short this (http://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=18630637). Thanks. – netfed Oct 16 '17 at 01:07
Do you know if there is an option to redirect to the _title page URL_? – freezed Aug 29 '18 at 13:30
@freezed I don't know if there's a way using the wiki URLs, but you can get the title for a page ID from the API: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&pageids=18630637 – jcsahnwaldt Reinstate Monica Aug 29 '18 at 15:04
I was asking for something like when you match a _redirect page_ like this one:`https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whistling_hare` redirects to `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pika`. For this pages param `redirect=no` exists (`https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whistling_hare&redirect=no`). I hope for an URL like `https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=186307&redirect=yes`. Actually `https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=186307` is by default redirecting to `https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pika&curid=186307` – freezed Sep 02 '18 at 10:01
Only don't get why http://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=18630637 loads as non-responsive on mobile device and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation loads responsive – Jakub Dec 30 '19 at 14:58
How do I get JSON/XML back instead of HTML? – Abhijit Sarkar Jun 19 '20 at 00:32

score 84 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 05 '19 at 09:41

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The pageid is the MediaWiki's internal article ID. You can use the action API's info property to get the full URL from pageid:

edited Feb 05 '19 at 09:41

toto_tico

answered May 29 '11 at 17:15

Matěj G.

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I wrote a new answer below, maybe a comment would have been enough... You don't need two API calls, one is enough. Just add "&prop=info&inprop=url" to your original URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=meaning&srprop=size%7Cwordcount%7Ctimestamp%7Csnippet&prop=info&inprop=url – jcsahnwaldt Reinstate Monica Mar 20 '12 at 19:11
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anyway to go the reverse? getting `pageid`/`title` from any given `url`? – Vikas Prasad Nov 29 '17 at 08:46
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@VikasPrasad: You can use the `titles` parameter instead: `https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Stack_Overflow` – Matěj G. Nov 29 '17 at 10:10
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@MatějG. My question is given a `url` can we get `title` or `pageid`? – Vikas Prasad Nov 29 '17 at 10:43
@VikasPrasad: Not for general URLs as far as I'm aware. At least not via the API. – Matěj G. Nov 29 '17 at 20:26

score 13 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 20 '12 at 19:10

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Oh, and you can also get the full page URL in your initial API call if you add "&prop=info&inprop=url":

answered Mar 20 '12 at 19:10

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