Hello Steve,
This is perfect! I don't know why I didn't see categorymembers before. I
think I will use the wptools though, because it is much faster.

Hm, it looks like -ant is missing from this list.
Thank you,


Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Steve Siznax <sis...@gmail.com> wrote:

> See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Categorymembers
>
> The API limit is 500. Here are the first 500:
>
> https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&formatversion=2&list=
> categorymembers&cmlimit=500&cmtitle=Category%3AEnglish%20agent%20nouns
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&formatversion=2&list=categorymembers&cmlimit=500&cmtitle=Category:English%20agent%20nouns>
>
> Wptools (python) can probably simplify your task:
>
> >>> import wptools
> >>> cat = wptools.category('Category:English agent nouns', wiki='
> en.wiktionary.org')
> >>> cat.get_members()
> >>> len(cat.data['members'])
> 576
>
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2018, at 2:30 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs <
> brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am new with using the API and can’t seem to get the list of words from:
>
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_agent_nouns
>
>
> I have managed to get the page:
>
> https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?format=jsonfm&formatversion=2&titles=
> Category:English_agent_nouns&action=query
>
>
> But nothing I have tried has worked. I originally tried:
>
> https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?format=jsonfm&formatversion=2&titles=
> Category:English_agent_nouns&action=query&list=allpages
>
>
> and I would expect for a list of pages (aka words) with a title attribute
> to show up, but instead I get titles such as: "title": "!" which is not
> very useful.
>
> I have also tried going through all the props, but still nothing. I don’t
> really understand props and list, but something should have given all the
> words.
>
>
> My goal is to use request to fetch the JSON so I can use the words in a
> script.
>
> Are there any tutorials or guides that go into getting lists of words like
> this?
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
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