Thank you ! This solved the issue.


> On Mar 3, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Dmitry Talisman <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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
>  
> <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
>  
> <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
>  
> <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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