API talk:Exturlusage
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Usage of eucontinue
[edit]Hello! I would like to get the number of links to a specific domain on Wikipedia (in my particular case the links to institutional repositories on different versions of wikipedia). This work perfectly fine as long as the number of links doesn't exceed 500.
I have seen the `eucontinue` parameter in the documentation but I couldn't figure out how to use it in an (iterative) API request.
Could anybody provide an example (maybe based on `get_exturlusage.py`) of how to use the eucontinue parameter?
Thank you! Aw8988 (talk) 04:45, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
- The example in API:Exturlusage#Response returns a "continue" property, which in turn contains "eucontinue" and "continue". You should append/merge both on the next request to continue pagination, until you no longer get a "continue" property in the response. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 08:07, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
- Domains like doi.org and nih.gov have millions of external links. Which means following 'eucontinue' for each set of 500 results would require thousands of API requests just to get all results for a single domain. Is there some other way to get the total number of external links for a domain ('exturlusage'), or the total number of expected 'eucontinue's ,without paginating thru each one? Hearvox (talk) 14:29, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
- If you have database access, you can query the externallinks table directly. On WMF there's a service to allow some queries. For example: Count the number of external links to the domain doi.org (http and https) on enwiki Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:45, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
- Domains like doi.org and nih.gov have millions of external links. Which means following 'eucontinue' for each set of 500 results would require thousands of API requests just to get all results for a single domain. Is there some other way to get the total number of external links for a domain ('exturlusage'), or the total number of expected 'eucontinue's ,without paginating thru each one? Hearvox (talk) 14:29, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
API on Dutch Wikipedia does not seem to work
[edit]The call https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=exturlusage&eulimit=100&eunamespace=0&format=json&euquery=https://www.dbnl.org gives zero results, while the Dutch article https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodoor%20van%20Ryswyck&action=edit clearly contains the URL "https://www.dbnl.org"
The equivalent call in the WPNL frontend seems to work: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:VerwijzingenZoeken?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dbnl.org
A modified call with a variant value of "euquery" does seem to work : https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=exturlusage&eulimit=100&eunamespace=0&format=json&euquery=dbnl.nl OlafJanssen (talk) 12:17, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- Self-solved this issue: apparently you need to specify the "euprotocol=https" explicitly
- https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=exturlusage&eulimit=100&eunamespace=0&format=json&euprotocol=https&euquery=www.dbnl.org
- However, this is not stated correctly in the documentation : "If empty and euquery is set, the protocol is http and https"
- https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=exturlusage&eulimit=100&eunamespace=0&format=json&euprotocol=&euquery=www.dbnl.org gives 0 results OlafJanssen (talk) 12:29, 21 November 2024 (UTC)