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A great feature of a wiki based on the mediawiki software is the built-in API.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
This allows you to write programs that access data from any wiki that uses mediawiki, like wikipedia, or this one!


== Getting the HTML of a wiki page ==
== Getting the HTML of a wiki page ==

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A great feature of a wiki based on the mediawiki software is the built-in API.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

This allows you to write programs that access data from any wiki that uses mediawiki, like wikipedia, or this one!

Getting the HTML of a wiki page

The documentation for the "PARSE" action of the API is here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext#GET_Request

Example link to get the HTML output of a page on THIS wiki in JSON format:

http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?action=parse&page=Entreprecariat_reader_synopses_and_abstracts&format=json