Have you tried appening clshow=!hidden as shown under prop=categories (cl) * ?
I have used it in the past for a different query. Thanks Prateek On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Robert Crowe <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm querying the API to get the categories and subcategories for a page, > and I'd like to be able to exclude hidden categories and administration > categories from the result. The queries that I currently use look like > this:**** > > ** ** > > Category Pages:**** > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Category:$catname&cmtitle=Category:$catname&list=categorymembers&cmlimit=500&prop=categories&format=php > **** > > ** ** > > Non-Category Pages:**** > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=$pagename&prop=text|categories&redirects&format=php > **** > > ** ** > > where $catname and $pagename are replaced by the page titles. Is there a > way to either exclude categories that are hidden categories, or that are > subcategories of the "Category:Hidden categories" category?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks,**** > > ** ** > > Robert**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Prateek Jain, Ph. D. RSM IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 1101 Kitchawan Road, 37-244 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/prateekj
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