A bit of a corner case, but I think you also need to check that the page title isn't "Main Page" (across all localizations).
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 5:13 AM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > This is actually a bit complicated. If you have the title of an article, > like "Earth", you would want to do an API query like: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles= > Earth&redirects&prop=pageprops > > You would then need to check 3 different things in the result: > 1. Is the page in the main namespace ("ns": 0)? > 2. Is the page a redirect? See > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?titles=!&redirects&; > action=query&prop=pageprops > for an example. > 3. Is the page a disambiguation page (pageprops.disambiguation)? See > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?titles=Georgia&; > redirects&action=query&prop=pageprops > for an example. > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:57 PM, Abdulfattah Safa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > How to check if a Wikipedia page is article or not using the API? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Abdulfattah Safa > > Senior Software Engineer > > Mobile: (+972)(599)231600 > > Skype: fattah.safa > > > > *P **Please consider the environment before printing this email* > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
