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    Upvotes78Top Answeredited Mar 18, 2022 at 16:29

    See this section in the MediaWiki API documentation, specifically involving getting the contents of the page.

    use the sandbox to test the API call.

    These are the key parameters.

    prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvsection=0

    rvsection = 0 specifies to only return the lead section.

    See this example.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvsection=0&titles=pizza

    To get the HTML, you can use similarly use action=parse

    • http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&section=0&prop=text&page=pizza

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