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		vanillaboy on April 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why it took a long time to build the tiny link pre... Can I access this API externally, e.g. by sending a http get request to some endpoint, to get the summary content in JSON format?

Findus23 on April 23, 2018 | [–]

Yes you can, there is a nice API returning the Popup-data in JSON

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48527419/4398037

Documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Page_content/get_pag...

saagarjha on April 23, 2018 | [–]

You can get a similar effect by hitting Wikipedia for its extract. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extract...

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