Special:Random

[paascorb]

Hi there,

Is there any way to get a random Wikipedia page?

I've tried the "Special:Random", but did not work.

Thanks in advance,
Pablo

[paascorb]

If anybody with this same problem wants to partially solve it, I coded a method:

def titulo_aleatorio():
    headers = {'User-Agent': 'your agent description'}
    while True:
        req = requests.get("https://es.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/random/summary", headers=headers)
        if titulo := json.loads(req.content)["title"]:
            return titulo

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[martin-majlis]

There is https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=random&rnnamespace=0&format=json - let me implement it.

Documentation is here - https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Brandom

[martin-majlis]

This was implemented in #504 and it's released in https://github.com/martin-majlis/Wikipedia-API/releases/tag/v0.12.0.

import wikipediaapi
user_agent = "Wikipedia-API Example (merlin@example.com)"
wiki = wikipediaapi.Wikipedia(user_agent=user_agent, language="en")
random_pages = wiki.random(limit=3)
print(f"Random pages ({len(random_pages)}):")
for title, page in random_pages.items():
    print(f"  {title}: {page.summary[:100]}")