Help talk:Linksearch

Hi, back in 2020 I used Special:LinkSearch to find articles contaning certain URL patters. I used it to search for articles that contain URLs that started with strictly "http://kb.nl" (so not "https://kb.nl", "http://www.kb.nl", "http://*.kb.nl" or similar patterns). Back then this query only returned URLs stricty starting with "http://kb.nl"

3 years later: I just tried this query again (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=500&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2Fkb.nl), but now I get results with URLS starting with http://www.kb.nl, http://liber-maps.kb.nl, http://poortman.kb.nl/, http://bltvn.kb.nl, http://opc4.kb.nl and other subdomains of http://kb.nl as well. That's not what I need.

Has the functionality of Special:LinkSearch indeed changed since 2020? And how can I get back the 'old' functionality? Can I tweak the API-call to serve the old functionality?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&oldid=1179443594 for further discussion and solutions.

I was wondering if it possible

1) to call a Linksearch query programmatically via the API and

2 get the results back in json (or even XML) format.

Couldn't find it on this page...

Thanks !

I found the answer: it can be done via the API: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bexturlusage

For instance on Wikidata, looking for Q-items (namespace=0) that contain URLs with the pattern "https://resolver.kb.nl", max 500 results, as json

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&eulimit=500&eunamespace=0&euprotocol=https&euquery=resolver.kb.nl&list=exturlusage&format=json

In the External links search webinterface this woud be https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=500&offset=0&target=https%3A%2F%2Fresolver.kb.nl

Hi, I'm trying to find all the pages in Wiktionary that has link to Wikimedia Species, of which there are hundreds, but when I run the search for species.wikimedia.org it returned no result. So I suppose that method doesn't work for special interwiki links. Is there a way to achieve this using Linksearch or other tools?

Thanks

One example of such page: