How to Get Text from a Wikipedia Page
Wikipedia makes it easy to extract page content without scraping HTML. Wikipedia exposes two APIs for this. The MediaWiki Action API (/w/api.php) handles raw wikitext and plain text; and the REST API (/api/rest_v1/) returns full HTML. Between them they offer three useful methods: raw wikitext via action=raw, full HTML via the REST API, and plain text via the TextExtracts endpoint. Method 1: Raw wikitext via URL Append ?action=raw to any Wikipedia article URL and you get the raw wikitext — the markup source Wikipedia stores internally: ...