On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Dmitry Talisman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> While working on my app I came across an issue with extracts that does not
> work for certain pages. The extracts is always empty. For example (Newark
> International Airport):
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exchars=175&pageids=263652
>

I note the pageid you're specifying is a redirect page. If we use the
target of the redirect instead, it seems to work fine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exchars=175&pageids=248492

You can even ask the API to bypass the redirect for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exchars=175&pageids=263652&redirects=1



-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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