GET /service/linkrecommendation/v1/linkrecommendations/wikipedia/{language}/{title}

Get a set of possible links that can be added to improve an article on Wikipedia.

Examples

curl

# Get link recommendations for the Earth article on English Wikipedia
$ curl https://api.wikimedia.org/service/linkrecommendation/v1/linkrecommendations/wikipedia/en/Earth

Python

# Python 3
# Get link recommendations for the Earth article on English Wikipedia

import requests

page = 'Earth'
url = 'https://api.wikimedia.org/service/linkrecommendation/v1/linkrecommendations/wikipedia/en/' + page

headers = {
  'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN',
  'User-Agent': 'YOUR_APP_NAME (YOUR_EMAIL_OR_CONTACT_PAGE)'
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
data = response.json()
print(data)

PHP

<?php
// Get link recommendations for the Earth article on English Wikipedia

$url = 'https://api.wikimedia.org/service/linkrecommendation/v1/linkrecommendations/wikipedia/en/Earth';

$token = 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN';
$authorization = 'Authorization: Bearer ' . $token;

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( $authorization ));
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'YOUR_APP_NAME (YOUR_EMAIL_OR_CONTACT_PAGE)' );
$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

echo( $output );
?>

JavaScript

// Get link recommendations for the Earth article on English Wikipedia

let url = 'https://api.wikimedia.org/service/linkrecommendation/v1/linkrecommendations/wikipedia/en/Earth';
let response = await fetch( url,
    {
        headers: {
            'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN',
            'Api-User-Agent': 'YOUR_APP_NAME (YOUR_EMAIL_OR_CONTACT_PAGE)'
        }
    }
);
response.json()
    .then(console.log).catch(console.error);

Try it out

Parameters

language

required path

Language code: ar (Arabic), bn (Bangla), cs (Czech), es (Spanish), de (German), el (Greek), en (English), fa (Farsi), fr (French), hu (Hungarian), pl (Polish), pt (Portuguese), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian), simple (Simple English), or vi (Vietnamese)
title

required path

Wiki page title
max_recommendations

optional query

Maximum number of recommendations to return. Default value is 15.
threshold

optional query

Number between 0 and 1 for the threshold to use. Default value is 0.5.

Responses

200 Success: Page found. Returns a link set object.
Example
{
  "links": [
    {
      "context_after": " to distin",
      "context_before": "cially in ",
      "link_index": 0,
      "link_target": "Science fiction",
      "link_text": "science fiction",
      "match_index": 0,
      "score": 0.5104129910469055,
      "wikitext_offset": 13852
    }
  ],
  "links_count": 1,
  "page_title": "Earth",
  "pageid": 9228,
  "revid": 1013965654
}