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How do I get a list of all of the quotes for a particular person from the mediawiki API?

I am trying to get a list of all of Kurt Cobain's quotes from the mediawiki api. I have:

https://en.wikiquote.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&srsearch=Kurt+Cobain&list=search

BUT, it doesn't seem to give me any of his quotes as shown here...nor does it provide a good format to be able to parse easily.

How do I get a list of all of his quotes using the API? If possible would also like to include the source - e.g. From an interview on MTV with Zeca Camargo, 1993-01-21, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Would prefer the API directly but an answer with pywikibot is also good.

Solution

  • There is no structured data like templates to get the quotes. All you can do is to retrieve quotes via regex from plain wikitext, something like:

    >>> import pywikibot
>>> s = pywikibot.Site('en', 'wikiquote')
>>> p = pywikibot.Page(s,'Kurt Cobain')
>>> t = p.text
>>> for quote in t.splitlines():
        if quote.startswith('* '):
            print(quote)