On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:56 AM, NetizenApps <[email protected]> wrote: > > I found that using title to query is not reliable as I have seen titles > changing when more articles with same/similar titles are being added. Some of > the older titles now lead to generic page stating this title might mean one > of the following in the list and a list of article pages links are shown > below this message. . I want to avoid getting redirected to this generic page > and always stay on the article page as I plan to show this Wikipedia content > on my numerous sub-domain home pages.
You're not actually being redirected. It's just that the old page was moved and a new page created at the old title. > Is there a page id that I can use which doesn't change at all and is always > associate to same article? If so, how can I query the page id using current > titles? Any examples and pointers is very much appreciated. There's the pageid, which can be queried using pageids instead of titles.[1] Note though that if the page is deleted and then undeleted (or recreated), a new pageid may be assigned. [1]: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&pageids=15580374 -- Brad Jorsch Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
