API:Backlinks/Sample code 1

Python

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
    get_backlinks.py

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Backlinks` module: Get request to list pages which link to a certain page.

    MIT License
"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"

PARAMS = {
    "action": "query",
    "format": "json",
    "list": "backlinks",
    "bltitle": "philosophy"
}

R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS)
DATA = R.json()

BACKLINKS = DATA["query"]["backlinks"]

for b in BACKLINKS:
    print(b["title"])

PHP

<?php
/*
    get_backlinks.php

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Backlinks` module: Get request to list pages which link to a certain page.

    MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
    "action" => "query",
    "format" => "json",
    "list" => "backlinks",
    "bltitle" => "philosophy"
];

$url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params );

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

$result = json_decode( $output, true );

foreach( $result["query"]["backlinks"] as $k => $v ) {
    echo( $v["title"] . "\n" );
}

JavaScript

/*
    get_backlinks.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Backlinks` module: Get request to list pages which link to a certain page.

    MIT License
*/

var url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; 

var params = {
    action: "query",
    format: "json",
    list: "backlinks",
    bltitle: "philosophy"
};

url = url + "?origin=*";
Object.keys(params).forEach(function(key){url += "&" + key + "=" + params[key];});

fetch(url)
    .then(function(response){return response.json();})
    .then(function(response) {
        var backlinks = response.query.backlinks;
        for (var b in backlinks) {
            console.log(backlinks[b].title);
        }
    })
    .catch(function(error){console.log(error);});

MediaWiki JS

/*
	get_backlinks.js

	MediaWiki API Demos
	Demo of `Backlinks` module: Get request to list pages which link to a certain page.

	MIT License
*/

var params = {
		action: 'query',
		format: 'json',
		list: 'backlinks',
		bltitle: 'philosophy'
	},
	api = new mw.Api();

api.get( params ).done( function ( data ) {
	var backlinks = data.query.backlinks,
		b;
	for ( b in backlinks ) {
		console.log( backlinks[ b ].title );
	}
} );