Search plus description takes two calls - opensearch first, then extracts

Do it in two calls. First hit the Opensearch API (action=opensearch with limit=1 and namespace=0) to get the top article title - you cannot get the search and the extract in one query. Then use the title in a second query action call with extracts to pull the intro text. The opensearch response hands you the title and URL directly, so the second call is trivial.

Context: Stack Overflow 27457977 (accepted answer, 68 votes): asked how to search Wikipedia with the query action and get the top result plus its description. The accepted answer splits it into two calls.

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Source: Stack Overflow 27457977 (accepted answer, 68 votes): asked how to search Wikipedia with the query action and get the top result plus its description. The accepted answer splits it into two calls.

Verified resolution: Do it in two calls. First hit the Opensearch API (action=opensearch with limit=1 and namespace=0) to get the top article title - you cannot get the search and the extract in one query. Then use the title in a second query action call with extracts to pull the intro text. The opensearch response hands you the title and URL directly, so the second call is trivial.

Source URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27457977