How to get the Infobox data from Wikipedia?

Question

If I have the url to a page, how would I obtain the Infobox information on the right using MediaWiki webservices?

Answer 1

Use the Mediawiki API through this Python library: https://github.com/siznax/wptools

Usage:

import wptools so = wptools.page('Stack Overflow').get_parse() infobox = so.data['infobox'] print(infobox) 

Output:

{'alexa': '{{Increase}} 34 ( {{as of|2019|12|15|lc|=|y}} )',  'author': '[[Jeff Atwood]] and [[Joel Spolsky]]',  'caption': 'Screenshot of Stack Overflow in February 2017',  'commercial': 'Yes',  'content_license': '[[Creative Commons license|CC-BY-SA]] 4.0',  'current_status': 'Online',  'language': 'English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Japanese',  'launch_date': '{{start date and age|2008|9|15}}',  'logo': 'Stack Overflow logo.svg',  'name': 'Stack Overflow',  'owner': '[[Stack Exchange]], Inc.',  'programming_language': '[[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]]',  'registration': 'Optional',  'screenshot': 'File:Stack Overflow homepage, Feb 2017.png',  'type': '[[Knowledge market]]',  'url': '{{URL|https://stackoverflow.com}}'} 

Answer 2

If you just want to parse the infobox or you want to get some digested data, a look at the DBPedia project: http://dbpedia.org

The DBPedia project scans the infoboxes in WP to create a RDF database from Wikipedia: https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework/