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Fetching a full article

Get wikitext, infobox fields, link graphs, and categories with the page command.

The page command talks to the MediaWiki Action API and returns everything the API exposes for a single article, plus parsed derivatives computed from the wikitext.

Basic fetch

fandom --wiki starwars page "Luke Skywalker"
fandom --wiki minecraft page "Creeper"
fandom --wiki harrypotter page "Horcrux" -o json

Fields

Every page response includes:

Field What it is
id Numeric page ID
title Canonical page title
display_title Display title from pageprops (may differ from title)
ns MediaWiki namespace number
url Full canonical URL
abstract Intro paragraph (from the API's extracts prop)
wikitext Raw wikitext source
plain_text Wikitext converted to Markdown
categories Array of category names the page belongs to
images Array of File: image references in the wikitext
internal_links Array of [[Page Title]] links (the outlink graph)
external_links Array of [https://... text] external links
templates Array of template names used in the wikitext
infobox_fields Key-value map extracted from the first infobox template
thumbnail URL of the page thumbnail image
last_editor Username of the most recent editor
revision_id Revision ID of the current version
page_length Page length in bytes (from the API)
word_count Word count of the rendered plain text
is_redirect True if the page is a redirect
updated_at Timestamp of the most recent revision

Infobox fields

infobox_fields is a flat key-value map extracted from the first infobox or structured template in the page. Keys and values are strings; wikitext markup is cleaned out.

fandom --wiki starwars page "Luke Skywalker" -o json | jq .infobox_fields
# {
#   "name": "Luke Skywalker",
#   "homeworld": "Tatooine",
#   "species": "Human",
#   "affiliation": "Rebel Alliance / New Republic / Jedi Order"
# }

fandom --wiki minecraft page "Creeper" -o json | jq .infobox_fields

internal_links is the full outlink graph for the page. Use it to discover related articles or drive a focused crawl:

fandom --wiki starwars page "Death Star" -o json | jq '.internal_links[]' | head -20

Combine with page calls to follow the graph:

fandom --wiki starwars page "Death Star" -o json \
  | jq -r '.internal_links[]' \
  | while read title; do
      fandom --wiki starwars page "$title" --no-wikitext -o jsonl
    done

Categories

fandom --wiki starwars page "Jedi" -o json | jq .categories

Suppress wikitext for compact output

For most structured data work you do not need the raw wikitext (which can be large). --no-wikitext drops it:

fandom --wiki starwars page "Luke Skywalker" --no-wikitext -o json

Revision history

For the full edit history of a page, use revisions:

fandom --wiki starwars revisions "Darth Vader" -n 20
fandom --wiki starwars revisions "Death Star" -o jsonl | jq '.editor' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
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