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Welcome to the wptools wiki!

This project is listed in:

• MediaWiki API docs
• Wikidata External Tools

If you are in a hurry, take a look at our fine examples, and then browse the menu on the right for more details.

Wptools makes read-only access to the various Wikimedia APIs as easy as pie. You can get info about a wiki sites, categories, and pages from any Wikimedia project in any language via the good 'ol Mediawiki API. You can extract unstructured data from page Infoboxes or get structured, linked open data about a page via the Wikidata API. You can also get page contents from the high-performance RESTBase API.

This project was built to help us understand how to easily and reliably get all kinds of information out of Wikipedia and make sense of the overwhelming scale of what is becoming the world's de facto encyclopedia—from a representative page image, to Infobox data, article summaries, and common Wikidata info. While Wikipedia dumps, and DBPedia provide scalable paths to extracting large data sets from Wikimedia projects, wptools aims to provide a mechanism for exploring a small number of sites, pages, or categories based on your personal interests, or to help you get familiar with Wikimedia data. We hope you find it helpful and will consider contributing.

Happy Hacking!

@siznax