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Extracts
Steve edited this page Nov 4, 2016
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Currently we get an extract of only the "lead section" (content before
the first setion) using action=query with &prop=extracts and
&exintro. The lead section is essentially a summary of the article.
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TextExtracts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lead_section
Example
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=Abraham_Lincoln
We get the extract in HTML and put it in the attribute extract, which we convert to Markdown text and put that into extext.