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Facilitates the creation of MediaWiki API base URLs to retrieve sections of a page

Source: R/tw_get_wikipedia_page_section_links.R
tw_get_wikipedia_section_links_api_url.Rd

Mostly used internally

Usage

tw_get_wikipedia_section_links_api_url(
  url = NULL,
  title = NULL,
  section_index,
  language = tidywikidatar::tw_get_language()
)

Arguments

url

A character vector with the full URL to one or more Wikipedia pages. If given, title and language can be left empty.

title

Title of a Wikipedia page or final parts of its url. If given, url can be left empty, but language must be provided.

section_index

Required. It should correspond to the ordinal of a section of the relevant Wikipedia page. See also tw_get_wikipedia_page_sections().

language

Two-letter language code used to define the Wikipedia version to use. Defaults to language set with tw_set_language(); if not set, "en". If url given, this can be left empty.

Value

A character vector of base urls to be used with the MediaWiki API

Examples

tw_get_wikipedia_section_links_api_url(title = "Margaret Mead", section_index = 1, language = "en")
#> [1] "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&redirects=true&format=json&page=Margaret%20Mead&section=1"