wikipedia-article
One Wikipedia article: its title, short description, summary paragraph, page link, thumbnail, the list of top-level sections, when it was last edited and the language. title is the article's name; lang the Wikipedia edition (en, de, ja, …).
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Fields
8 columns on every row. null means the site does not state it.| field | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| title | string | |
| description | string | |
| summary | string | |
| url | string | |
| thumbnail | string | |
| sections | string[] | |
| updated | string | |
| lang | string |
null means the site does not state it.
How it behaves
Cost. 3 units. A failed run costs 0.
Freshness 1 d. The same input within 1 d is served from cache at 0 units.
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Call POST /recipes/wikipedia-article with your key and title and lang. You get rows with the 8 fields above. The recipe is tested against the live site every 6 hours.
3 units. A failed run costs 0. The same input within 1 d costs 0.
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