Wikipedia api fulltext search to return articles with title, snippet and image

Question

I\'ve been looking for a way to query the wikipedia api based on a search string for a list of articles with the following properties:

• Title
• Snippet/Descr

Answer 1

As Bergi suggested, using generators is the way to go here. Specifically what I would do:

• use list=search as a generator, to get the list of articles
• use prop=pageimages to get a representative image for each article
• use prop=extracts to get a description for each article

The whole query could look like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&generator=search&gsrnamespace=0&gsrsearch=test&gsrlimit=10&prop=pageimages|extracts&pilimit=max&exintro&explaintext&exsentences=1&exlimit=max