Installing Extensions about mediawiki HOT 2 CLOSED

Okay, I was being dumb and didnt realize these "extensions" are not userside. Is there any way to extract text from a page not having the TextExtracts extension?

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Yes, you are correct that the extensions mentioned in the documentation are on the mediawiki side and not something that the user can add. Therefore, there are a few options:

1. Make sure the site is a mediawiki site and not a generic "wiki"; it isn't common, in my experience, that a mediawiki site does not have the TextExtracts extension installed
2. Reach out to the owners of the site and see if they would install the extension (worth a shot!)
3. Or you can use the wiki markup language; you would have to do something like this:

from mediawiki import MediaWiki

wiki = MediaWiki(url="the-media-wiki-api-url")
page = wiki.page("My Page")
page.wikitext

It has formatting code (similar in nature to the markdown format) but it should have all the text.

Hope this is helpful. If you need more information I would likely need examples of the issue to be able to help more. If this resolves your issue, go ahead and close this ticket.

Thanks!

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