On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Jack Phoenix <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm trying to build an autocompletion thingy that suggests categories based
> on user input using the opensearch API [1].


Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HotCat


> How can I totally strip out the "Category:"
> part and pretend it doesn't exist and never did?
>

Hit api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces to get the
localized name of the Category namespace. Or you should be safe just
removing everything up to the first colon.


-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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