pywikibot | Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API | REST library

in my github actions unit test i am running some pywikibot code (pywikibot 6.6.3) that some times fails due to the site not being responsive or a misconfiguration. The log report used to show the error messages after a few minutes.

Now the code runs some 2 hours and more with hint such as:

I am trying to extract links from the summary section of a wikipedia page. I tried the below methods :

This url extracts all the links of the Deep learning page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=Deep%20learning

And for extracting links associated to any section I can filter based on the section id - for e.g.,

for the Definition section of same page I can use this url : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=links&page=Deep%20learning&section=1

for the Overview section of same page I can use this url : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=links&page=Deep%20learning&section=2

But I am unable to figure out how to extract only the links from summary section

I even tried using pywikibot to extract linkedpages and adjusting plnamespace variable but couldn't get links only for summary section.

I have a list of strings called cities, where each string is a city name that is also the title of a wikipedia page. For each city, I'm getting the wikipedia page and then looking at the text content of it:

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.

At Pywikibot's Mediawiki Talk page this question has been asked some 2 years ago already.

The answers there were along the lines "you shouldn't" and maxthrottle isn't the right parameter for that.

For intranet usecases the throttle is mostly counterproductive. Especially when testing the automation the throttle kicks in no matter how low the number of API accesses is. So I'd rather switch if off or set it to a reasonable time of a few millisecs instead of the default 10 seconds.

How can the throttle be set to a different time?

The MediaWiki API has an edit function which is available within pywikibot. According to https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/master/api_ref/pywikibot.site.html

the function is called with a page parameter:

I am using the following code to get the backlinks of a page in wikipedia.

I am looking to parse the Wikipedia talk page (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Elon_Musk). I would like to loop through texts by contributors/editors. Not sure how do I do it. For now, I have the following code:

I am using pywikibot in python to get all revisions of a Wikipedia page.

import pywikibot as pw wikiPage='Narthaki' page = pw.Page(pw.Site('en'), wikiPage) revs = page.revisions(content=True)

How do I know which of the revisions were reverts? I see from https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/Narthaki that the page has one revert edit. Not sure how to get more information about this from the revision object.

Request your help. Many thanks!